Association and Enlightenment : Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

Wallace, Mark C. (EDT)/ Rendall, Jane (EDT)/ Whatley, Christopher A. (FRW)

Rutgers University Press（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781684482672
• DDC分類 367.941109033

Full Description

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

Contents

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Theory and Practice of Associational Life

Chapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theory

in the Scottish Enlightenment

David Allan

Chapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700‒1830                

Bob Harris                                                                                                              

Part II: Professional Men and Their Societies

Chapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment                                                                

Jacqueline Jenkinson       

Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

Ralph McLean           

Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture                                                     

Chapter 5: "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability

James J. Caudle                                                                                                                            

Chapter 6: The "Bohemian Club": A Study of Edinburgh's Cape Club                                                       

Rhona Brown                                                                                                                

Chapter 7: "Caledonia's Bard, Brother Burns": Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry            

Corey E. Andrews                                                

Chapter 8: Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland                         

Martyn J. Powell                    

Part IV:  Gender and Associational Culture                   

Chapter 9: Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity      

in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Rosalind Carr                                                                                                                    

Chapter 10: Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790‒1830                                           

Jane Rendall                                                                                                                     

Acknowledgments

Bibliography              

Notes on Contributors                                                                                                               

Index