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abolitionism: see slavery Barbauld, Anna Letitia 18, 62–79, 82–101, Ackermann, Rudolph 129 138; Address to the Opposers of the Repeal 72–3; Addison, Joseph 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 44 ‘Autumnal Thought’ 77–8; ‘Character’ of Adorno, Theodor 214 Priestley 89–90; Civic Sermons to the People 74, Aikin, Anna Letitia: see Anna Letitia Barbauld 85, 98–100; ‘Devotional Taste’ 99; and Aikin, John, D. D. 62, 64, 66–7, 75 Dissent 62–79, 83, 85, 89, 99–101; Eighteen Aikin, John, M. D. 64, 69, 71, 74, 77, 83–4, Hundred and Eleven 77–9, 84, 101; Epistle to 115; Evenings at Home 83; Miscellaneous Pieces in Wilberforce 73–4; Evenings at Home 83; and Prose 83 friendship 67, 75, 77, 82, 83–4, 92–3, 98; Aikin, Lucy 64–5, 69, 70, 74 ‘The Invitation’ 68; letters 82–3, 89, 98; Alderson, Amelia 19, 52, 167, 177, 178, ‘Lines to Samuel Rogers in Wales on the 181, 182 Eve of Bastille Day, 1791’ 74; Miscellaneous alterity 160 Pieces in Prose 82, 83; ‘The Mouse’s Petition’ Alien Act 212 86–7; ‘On A Lady’s Writing’ 67; ‘On Mrs amateur acting: see theatre P[riestley]’s Leaving Warrington’ 86; Poems America: colonies 24, 27–8; as place of exile (1873) 63, 66–70, 82; and Joseph Priestley 97, 104, 115; Republic 32–3, 36, 116; 84–90, 97–101; and Mary Priestley 86, 88, Revolution, War of Independence 28, 30, 90–5, 97–8; ‘A Summer Evening’s 32, 34, 45, 65, 191, 169 Meditation’ 69–70; ‘Thoughts on the Amidei, Cosimo 29 Devotional Taste, on Sects, and on Amsterdam 26, 28, 31, 36 Establishments’ 87–9, 99;‘ToaGreat Andrews, Miles Peter 110 Nation, Written by a Lady’ 75;‘ToaLady, Anstey, Christopher 134 with some painted flowers’ 76, 91–3;‘ToDr anti-sociability 15–16, 194, 200, 205; duel, as Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected form of 48; introspection as 4; and sensibility him’ 83–4; ‘To Dr Priestley, Dec. 29, 1792’ 8–9; and shame 54, 201, 204–5; and solitude 100–1; ‘To Mrs P[riestley], with some 4–5, 19–20, 206; and spies, surveillance 15, Drawings of Birds and Insects’ 91; and Mary 45, 50, 95, 126; theatre of 160 Wollstonecraft 72, 76, 78, 91–3 Ariès, Philippe 10 Barbauld, Rochemont 63, 69, 70–1, 77, 78, Armstrong, Isobel 64 87 Arno Miscellany, The 107 Barbour, Judith 191 associations: see societies Barlow, Joel 50 Austen, Jane 8–9, 14, 96 Bee, The 56 Australia 19–20, 128 Bell, John 211 Belle Assemblée, La 211, 230 Bacon, Francis 181 Bible, the 201 Baillie, Joanna 71, 159; on sociability of Binhammer, Katherine 187 theatre 146 Binns, John 45, 47 Bailyn, Bernard 28 Birmingham 27, 33, 35, 36 Ballard, T. G. 113 Birmingham riots: see riots Banks, Thomas 49 Blackwood’s Magazine 186

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Blake, William 37 Honest Whigs 28; Keep the Line 110, 113; bluestockings 71, 82, 135, 227, 229 King of Clubs 37–8, 40; women’s 227; see Blum, Carol 200 also debating; spouting Boaden, James 104–5, 113 Cobbett, William 13, 14 botany 96 coffee-houses 5–6, 7, 12–13, 14, 15, 17, 18–19, Borsay, Peter 3, 127 43–58, 126, 174, 176, 213, 214, 226, 229; Boswell, James 2, 17, 44, 113 Lloyd’s 6; the Percy 43–4, 57 Bourdieu, Pierre 11, 229 Cohen, Michèle 3 Bowlby, Rachel 230 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 2, 17, 27, 38–40, bowling greens 127 54, 69, 77, 78, 104, 116–18; and Brainbridge, Mrs 124 associationism 109; Biographia Literaria 109, Bradley, James 27 148; and conversation 138; and friendship Brewer, John 3 148; The Friend 148; as lecturer 117, 123–4, Bright, Henry 65, 68, 70, 73 134–5, 137–40; ‘Reflections on Having Left British Lady’s Magazine 231 a Place of Retirement’ 117; see also brotherhood 100 imagination; fancy Brunton, Anne 104, 174 commercial society: commercialism 186–7, Brussels 25, 31 188, 195, 219, 228; and coffee-houses 48; Buenos Aires 25 and Dissenting culture 65; see also capitalism; Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 189 consumerism Burke, Edmund 29, 87, 96, 116, 195; companionship 17–18, 20 Reflections on the Revolution in France 8, 56, 85, communality 10, 16 97, 98, 110, 112–13, 128, 140, 175, 195 conduct books: see also textuality Burney, Charles 229 consumerism 211, 213–4, 218–9, 222, 224, Burney, Frances 135, 178, 214; Cecilia 215; 231; see also shopping Evelina 215; The Wanderer 228, 230; The conversation 2, 3, 5–7, 17–18, 20, 24–5, 52, Witlings 214–15, 225–6, 228–30 91, 97, 105, 116, 137, 188; and classical Butler, Judith 11, 188, 194–5 public sphere 11–13; and coffee-houses 43, Byron, George Gordon, Lord 187; The Blues 56; conversation rooms 123, 132–3, 140; 134–37; Byronism: see Lister, Anne; Childe feminine 84; ‘free familiar’ 62, 66–7; ‘ideal Harold’s Pilgrimage 193; Don Juan 193, 196, 202 speech situation’ 48–9; republican 27–8, 31–2, 36–7 Cambridge, University of 104 conviviality 1, 4, 5, 17–18, 20, 43, 45, 49, 55, Calais 50 129 Campbell, Thomas 38 Cooper, Thomas 49 Capellen, Joan Derck van der 36 Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe 167 capitalism 9; see also commercial society Copeland, Edward 223 Cappe, Newcome 66 counter public: see public Carlson, Julie 224 courtrooms: see law Carlton House 54 Cowley, Hannah 108 Castle, Terry 197 Cox, Jeffrey 17–18 Chandler, James 116 Critical Review 53 Chanel, Coco 189 Crisp, Samuel 229 Christensen, Jerome 186, 188, 195 Cromwell, Oliver 211 citizenship, discourse of 82 Cruikshank, Isaac 129 civic ideal: civics lessons 73–4, 212; civic Curll, Edmund 28 participation 75, 83, 85, 98–9; civic virtue 44 Dalton, John 134 Clairmont, Mary Jane 178, 182 Darby, Barbara 227, 229–30 Clare, John 2 Darwin, Erasmus 96 Clark, Peter 3, 5, 11 David, J-L. 114 class 3–4, 16, 18, 50, 67, 141, 207, 217, 223 Davy, Humphry 38, 123, 134, 135 Clavigero, Francisco Javier 33 debating 4, 14, 15, 16, 43, 49, 57, 58, 126, closet drama: see theatre 128, 138, 216–18, 222, 224, 227–8, 233; and clubs 3, 5–6, 7, 13, 15, 24, 26, 36–7, 49, 56, conviviality 129; parliamentary 73; women 213, 222; Beefsteak 110; gentlemen’s 133; in 132, 216; see also societies

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Delany, Mary 96 Equiano, Olaudah 34 Della Cruscans 104, 110; Della Cruscanism Erskine, Thomas 52–3 104, 108, 110, 111, 112, 116; see also Robert Everest, Kelvin 117 Merry Examiner 18 De Quincey, Thomas 186–7, 195, 203, 206 Derby 126 Fair Penitent, The (Nicholas Rowe) 168 Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of 135 fancy 118 diaries: see textuality Farington, Joseph 125 Diderot, Denis 32 fashion 132, 135, 137, 189, 190, 196, 205, Dilly, Charles 28 211–2, 215, 218, 230–1; see also embodiment; Dilly, Edward 28 sociability, fashionable; style dinners, sociable 4, 17, 113, 176, 191, 193; Felski, Rita 204, 205 Bastille anniversary dinner Birmingham 93; Fenwick, Eliza 171 at Benjamin Robert Haydon’s 1–2;at Field, Barron 19–20 Thomas Holcroft’s 180; at Joseph Johnson’s Fitzgerald, Edward 114 70–2, 174–5, 180; at Elizabeth Montagu’s 71; Florence 104, 107 at the Percy coffee-house 43–8, 52–3; Florence Miscellany, The 107–8 radical dining 14; Society for Constitutional Flower, Benjamin 75 Information dinner 50; at Horne Tooke’s 49 Fordyce, Dr James 92 D’Israeli, Isaac 125 Fox, Charles James 37, 111; Foxite Whigs 37, Dissent 13, 18, 27, 29, 32, 89, 118; Burke on 50, 110–11 85; ‘Dissenting sociability’, 93; and public France 230 sphere 82–3; see also Anna Letitia Barbauld; Franklin, Benjamin 27, 28, 36 Dissenting academies; Joseph Priestley; riots Fraser, Nancy 10, 15, 213 Dissenting academies: Hampstead 70; fraternizing 25, 35, 36 Warrington 62–78, 83, 85, 86, 88, 89–90, freemasonry 27, 29, 30–1; see also Illuminati 91, 97–8 French Revolution, the 8, 14, 24, 26, 29, domesticity 56–8, 64–7, 69, 75–6, 98, 137, 34–6, 45, 56, 57, 63, 64, 70, 71, 72–3, 74, 141; ‘domestic virtue’ 83; see also privacy: 97, 99, 104, 105, 110, 111, 116, 125, 154, 195; private sphere; sociability, domestic see also politics Doody, Margaret 225, 227 friendship 17–18, 20, 72, 75, 77, 83–4, 90, Dunlap, William 167 100–1, 148, 150, 162–3; ‘Dissenting Dwyer, John 7, 8 sociability’ and 93–4; female 82, 92–3, 98; Dyer, George 39–40 intellectual 66–7; theatricality of 148; see also companionship; fraternizing Eagleton, Terry 13–14, 44, 213 Frost, John 43–58 Eaton, Daniel Isaac 15, 28, 50, 54; Politics for Fuseli, Henry 72, 168 the People 50, 55, 113–14 Edinburgh Review 38 Gallagher, Catherine 228 education 62–70, 71, 73; female 62–70; see gallantry 192 also Dissent; Dissenting academies; gambling 133 knowledge Garrick, David 138 Eidouranion 124–5 George III 100 Eldon, Lord: see John Scott gender 5, 11, 18–19, 75–6, 82–3, 189–91, Elias, Norbert 190 194–6, 205; female masculinity, 189–90, 191, elocution 139 194–5, 202; and knowledge 83–4, 96, 101; embodiment 187–9, 190–1, 195, 217; see also masculinity 195; see also embodiment fashion; gender Geneva 27, 28–9 empire, British, 20; see also slavery genius 82, 90, 101, 174 Empson, Ellen 196 gentleman 44, 46, 48, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, Enﬁeld, William 62, 64, 65, 67, 74 190–1, 195; see also radicals, gentleman Enlightenment 6, 7, 25–6, 28, 30–5, 166, Gentleman’s Magazine 110, 212 213, 218, 233; public sphere 16, 124, 125, Gerrald, Joseph 50, 54, 128–9 213; Scottish 7–8; and sociability 4, 85, 127; Giddens, Anthony 11 and enthusiasm 110, 124; Gifford, William 105, 111, 112 equality 43–4, 51, 53, 54, 57–8 Gilmartin, Kevin 224

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Gilpin, William 222–4 Hitchcock, Tim 3 Gissing, George 3 Hobbes, Thomas 8 Godwin, William 2, 6, 15, 18, 37, 38, 40, Hodgson, William 45–7, 54 48–9, 54, 63, 76, 132, 133, 138, 163, 166–83; Hohendahl, Peter 214 and Amelia Alderson 177–8; Caleb Williams d’Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry 28 16, 48, 173; Cloudesley 173; Considerations on Holcroft, Thomas 49, 54, 111, 149, 174, Lord Grenville and Mr Pitt’s Bills 128; Deloraine 180–1; and friendship 148; and William 173; and Enlightenment sociability 16–17; Godwin 149–50, 153, 175; Hugh Trevor 157; Enquiry concerning Political Justice 17, 48–9, on sociability of theatre 146; Theatrical 128, 152, 166, 170, 175, 182; Faulkener 150; Recorder 151, 152, 153 and friendship 148; friendship with Thomas Holland, Lady 135 Holcroft 149–50, 153, 175; Mandeville 173; Holt, Daniel 54 Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights Hone, William 211 of Woman 167, 171–3, 175, 177, 178; and Horkheimer, Max 214 Robert Merry 114–15; on public assembly Howard, John 117 128; and Mary Wollstonecraft 76, Hume, David 9, 32, 33, 109, 110, 132 166–83; Humphries, Mrs 93 Godwin, Mary Jane: see Mary Jane Clairmont Hunt, Henry 139 Goethe, Wilhelm 30, 168, 227 Hunt, Leigh 2, 161, 162; and sociality 17–18, Goldsmith, Oliver 225; She Stoops to Conquer 146 225 Hutton, Catherine, 94 Gordon, Lord George 27, 28, 54 Hutton, William, 93–4; Narrative of the Riots 94 gossip 167, 201, 215 Guillory, John 64, 68 Illuminati, 30–1; see also freemasonry imagination, theories of 109 Habermas, J¨urgen 5, 11–14, 15, 186, 187–8, Imlay, Fanny 180 212–15, 217, 218, 227, 230, 233; Imlay, Gilbert 168, 180 ‘audience-oriented privacy’ 9, 170, 199;on Inchbald, Elizabeth 167, 174, 179–80, 181; private sphere 45, see also domesticity; on A Simple Story 180 public sphere 9, 11–14, 45, 106, 124, 125, Ingleby, Sir William 196 129, 187–8; ‘representative publicness’ 187–8; Structural Transformation of the Public Jacobinism 8, 35–6, 47, 53–4, 84, 212 Sphere 212–13, 215; and theatre 147 Jacobus, Mary 203 Haiti 34 Johnson, Joseph 15, 49, 62–3, 73, 74, 75, 76, Halifax 134, 187, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 91, 96, 98; dinners of 70–2, 174–5, 180 202, 206 Johnson, Samuel 17, 169, 175 Hamilton, Paul 15 journals: see textuality, periodicals Hampstead 63, 70, 71, 72 handbills: see textuality Keach, William 64 Hansen, Miriam 213 Kean, Edmund 138, 158 Hardy, Thomas 49, 57 Keate, William 72–3 Hargreaves-Mawdsley, J. 113–14 Keats, John 1, 2, 17, 18, 133, 135, 138–9, 177 Harrington, James 28 Kegan Paul, Charles 167 Harris, Thomas 115 Kemble, John Philip 179 Harrow School 104 Kraft, Elizabeth 76 Haydon, Benjamin Robert 1–2, 4, 5, 17 King, John ‘Jew’ 174 Hays, Mary 19, 72, 167–73, 175, 177; Memoirs Kingston, John 1–2 of Emma Courtney 171 Klancher, Jon 13, 16, 58–9, 111, 186 Hazlitt, William 2, 18, 20; and acting 156–7; Klein, Lawrence 4–5, 106 and friendship 148; as lecturer 123, 133, knowledge: see gender 138–9, 140; Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth 223 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157;on Shakespeare 155, 157, 160; on sociability of Lacan, Jacques 160 theatre 145–7, 155–6, 160–2; theatre Laclau, Ernesto 11 criticism of 148–9, 156, 159–60, 163 Lady’s Magazine 212, 230

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Lamb, Lady Caroline 202; Glenarvon 202; Copenhagen Fields 125; Exeter Change 221; New Cantos 202 St James’s Palace 54; St Pancras 181; Strand Lamb, Charles 1–2, 17, 19–20, 138, 161; and 126; Somers Town 167; Southgate 182 friendship 148; on sociability of theatre 146, London Corresponding Society: see societies 162 London Gazette 50 Lamb, Mary 231–3 London Magazine 2, 19, 149 Landes, Joan 225 lounging 133–4 Langford, Paul 3–4 loyalism 8, 46, 47, 49, 57 Larpent, Anna Maria 38 Luhmann, Niklas 9, 11, 193;on law: and language 43, 47, 51–2, 55; courtroom ‘affect-management’ 9, 199; on gallantry as public space 51–3, 55, 56; trial texts: see 192; see also romantic love textuality; see also Newgate prison luxury 214 Lawton, Mariana, n´eeBelcombe 189, 197, Lynn 126–7 200–5 lecturing 57, 191; and bluestockings 135; and Macaulay, Catharine 26, 28 gender 137; William Godwin on 128; Macdonald, Sir Archibald 56 institutions: Beaufort Buildings 126–29, Mackintosh, James 38, 174 132–3, London 123,Royal123, 134, 136, Magnuson, Paul 4 139, Russell 123, Surrey 123, 129–33, 137, Maier, Pauline 28 Willis Rooms 135; theatricality of 128–9, Manchester 35, 57, 205 138–9; and women 132, 133; see also Samuel Marat, Jean Paul 31, 32, 36 Taylor Coleridge; John Dalton; Humphry Mason, William 71, 109 Davy; debating; William Hazlitt; public Massachusetts 27 oratory; John Thelwall Matilda, Anna: see Hannah Cowley Lee, Arthur 28 Mayhew, Jonathan 27 Lee, Harriet 182 McCalman, Iain 58 Lee, William 28 McCarthy, William 69, 76 Leeds 204 McCracken, Mary Ann 37 Leopold, Austrian Arch Duke 108 McGann, Jerome 104, 105, 110, 118, 134 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 30 Meehan, Michael 107 letters 4, 9, 12, 17, 19–20, 25, 30, 82–101, Mendelssohn, Moses, 30 167–72, 182, 187; see also textuality Merry, Robert 49, 74, 104–18, 174, 182;as Liddington, Jill 194 Della Crusca 107, 108, 113, 116; Diversity 109, Lillo, George 178; The Will 178 110, 115; and enthusiasm 110, 112; and Lister, Anne 11, 186–207; Byronism of 186, William Godwin 114–15; Laurel of Liberty 188–90, 192–4, 195–6, 197–8, 206; class and 111–12; and Joseph Priestley 111; ‘Ode to 187, 189–91, 195–6; lecture attendance of Freedom’ 113; Pains of Memory 115, 118; The 134; literary ambition of 192, 197–8; and Wounded Soldier 113 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 187, 198–202, 206; Milbanke, Annabella 135 and vulgarity 186, 191, 197–8, 206; see also Milton, John 100, 139, 166, 182 gender: female masculinity; sexuality; Missy, Rousset de 26, 31 sociability, sexual; style Mitchell, Leslie, 3 Lister, Captain Jeremy 190 Mitford, Mary Russell 140 Lister, Sam 191 Money, John 3 literature 87–8, 136–7, 139, 173, 198; Monro (spy) 114 celebrity, literary 1, 186, 188; literary dinner Montagu, Elizabeth 66, 82–3, 97, 229; 1–2, 71; literary criticism 161, 227; poetry dinners of 71 87–8, 96, 97–8, see also Anna Letitia Monthly Magazine 182 Barbauld; Robert Merry; ‘polite letters’ 82, Monthly Review 53, 67, 69 84; see also textuality Moore, Thomas 2, 135; Lallah Rookh 193 Llandaff, Bishop of 76 morality, moral philosophy 6, 7, 9, 84, 87, 98; Locke, John 53 see also Enlightenment; sociability, ideals of London 16, 63–4, 68, 69–70, 71–2, 78, 177, More, Hannah 108 178, 182, 214, 216, 221, 230; Blackfriars Moreau de Saint-M´ery 33 Road 133; Compton Street, Soho 126; Morning Chronicle 149

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Morris, Meaghan 222 Pope, Alexander 174 Mouffe, Chantal 11 press, the 28, 52, 56, 86, 111 Mullan, John 8–9, 107 Price, Richard 26 Munich 30 Priestley, Joseph 27, 32, 33, 39, 62, 64, 65, music concerts 125 67, 71, 72, 73; and Anna Letitia Barbauld 84–90, 97–101; and Birmingham riots 47, Napoleonic Wars 190 93–8, 100–1; and Robert Merry 111; and National Convention 50, 57 necessitarianism 112; and Adam Walker 124 Nead, Lynda 55 Priestley, Mary (néeWilkinson) 66, 88, 93, Newgate prison 43, 46, 115; and ‘public 94–5; and Anna Letitia Barbauld 86, 90–93, sphere’ 53–4 97–8 Norwich 126, 177, 178 print culture 13, 14, 16, 62–3, 68, 71, 75, 231; see also textuality Opie, John 176 privacy: private sphere 9–10, 18, 45, 53, 83, Oswald, John 114 95–6, 132, 198–9; ‘audience-oriented privacy’ 9, 199; private conversation 46, 48, Paine, Thomas 14, 27, 31, 35, 49, 50, 53, 63, 53; private correspondence, 95, 187; private 71, 74, 118, 129, 175; and Robert Merry publication, 68, 74; private sociability of 112–4; Rights of Man 13, 56, 175; supporters family 5, 17, 77; see also subjectivity of 45–6, 48 public: public sphere 3, 4, 5, 7–8, 9–14, pantisocracy, 39 16–19, 44, 45–7, 51–2, 54, 58, 70, 72, 74, 78, Paris 24, 28, 29, 35, 40, 112, 114, 174, 191, 196 84, 96, 116, 124, 125, 129, 132, 145, 147, 156, Parr, Samuel 47, 174, 176 161, 162, 186–9, 211, 213, 25, 228; bourgeois Pateman, Carole 170 7, 43, 217, 218, 228; commercial 186–7; Patmore, P. G. 160 counter public 13–15, 212–13, 215, 230; Peacock, Thomas Love 134 Dissenting 83; and gender, 82–3; literary Pennsylvania, 39 141, 148, 228; plebeian counter public 55, performativity 4, 7, 11–12, 15, 16, 17, 129, 129; political 149; and oratory 49, 124, 139; 157, 188, 191, 197, 198–9, 218; see also reading public 44, 218, 230; ‘representative theatricality publicness’ 187–8; and speaking 57, 124; and periodicals: see textuality violence, 96; and worship, 75, 89; see also Perry, Sampson 114 Jürgen Habermas; privacy: private sphere Peterloo 195 Puritanism: see religion Philadelphia 27 Philp, Mark 4, 49, 166, 174, 174, 176, 177; Quakers, Quakerism: see religion Godwin’s Political Justice 166, 176 Quincy, Josiah 28 Pigott, Charles 45–7, 52, 114–15 Pilati, Carlantonio 29 Radcliffe, Mary Ann 230–1 pillory 53, 54, 55; as ‘street spectacle’ 54 radicals: radicalism 13, 14–15, 18, 20, 24–40, Pinch, Adela 223 91, 110–5, 125–30; and Anna Letitia Pinkerton, Miss 168 Barbauld, 98–101; gentleman 43, 50, 54; Piozzi, Hester 107, 109, 125, 128, 129, 134 scientific 96; see also Jacobinism; Thomas Pitt, William 51, 52, 94, 111, 114, 125, 224;as Paine; Joseph Priestley; politics; sedition ‘Signor Pittachio’ 113 Rappaport, Erika 230 politics 6–7, 10, 12, 13, 17–18, 56, 65, 71, 75–7, rationality: rationalism 12, 14, 18, 45, 48, 78, 223; elections 1835 194; parliamentary 72–3, 75, 76, 111, 129, 145, 147, 152, 213, 73; political opinion, expression of 15, 43, 227, 228; and friendship 149; irrationality, 47–8, 55; oratory 14, 124; radical 24–40, 49, and 49; rational discourse, 67; rational 55, 57, 62–4, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76–7, 148–9, entertainment 124, 127, 151, 216; rational 110–15, 125–30; republican 24–40; public 217; see also sociability, types of revolutionary 25–6, 32, 34–5, 38, 45, 62, 69, Rawson, Christopher 195 71, 72–3, 76–7; and sociability 125; Tory 51, Raynal, Abbé 32 189, 194, 199; Whig 110–11, 194; see also Reeves, John 46; see also societies: Association Dissent; French revolution; Jacobinism; for Preserving Liberty and Property against reform; republicanism Republicans and Levellers Poovey, Mary 212 reform 49, 51, 53, 57

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religion 94; Anglicanism 38, 199; Calvinism ‘separate spheres’ 212 29; Catholicism 29, 30; Congregationalism Seward, William 113 27, 65; Methodism 31, 34, 124; sexuality 96–7, 166–83, 186–207; Presbyterianism 65; Protestantism 27, 29, ‘compulsory heterosexuality’ 187, 194, 205, 32, 33; Puritanism 27, 48; Quakerism 31, 206; ‘free love’ 37–8; lesbian and gay studies 34, 65; Unitarianism 27, 32, 33, 85, 93, 94; 206; religious devotion as heterosexual see also Dissent; freemasonry passion 87–9; and romantic love 200, 204, religious devotion 87–9 206; same-sex 39–40, 186–207; Sapphism religious toleration 64, 72 195; sexual difference 212; sexual publicity republicanism 24–40, 46–7, 49, 51, 53, 63, 187, 194, 201, 202, 205; ‘sexual sociability’ 71, 72–4, 76, 231; republic of letters 25, 44, 191–8, 206; and sociability 166–83, 186–207 54, 83, 214 Shaftesbury, Anthony, Earl of 7, 9, 106–9, Reveley, Maria 54 113, 116–17; Characteristicks 106; and Revere, Paul 27 enthusiasm 106–10; and politeness 127; Rey, Marc Michel 28 sociable ideal of 108–9 Reynolds, Frederic 110, 112 Shakespeare, William 139, 147, 155, 157, 158, Ridgway, James 28 159, 160, 161, 162 Riede, David 109 shame: see anti-sociability riots: Birmingham 85, 93–101; see also Joseph Sharp, William 49 Priestley; Spa Fields Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 76, 173, 182; Robbins, Bruce 10 Frankenstein 182 Robinson, Henry Crabb 84, 133–5 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 118 Robinson, Mary 112, 167, 174 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 110–11; The Critic Roche, Sophie von la 215–16, 218–9 135; School for Scandal 135 Roe, Nicholas 17 shopping 191, 214–15, 217–19, 221, 225–6, Rogers, Samuel 112, 114–15 230, 231; shopkeeper, figure of 223 romantic love 70, 192, 200, 204, 206; and Siddons, Sarah 158, 179–82 religious devotion 87–9 Sidney, Algernon 39 Romanticism 2, 4–5, 8–9, 12–14, 18–20, 63, Simmel, Georg 10–12, 15 64, 78, 116, 200; and Shakespeare 158 Siskin, Clifford 118, 173 Roscoe, William 2 slavery 31–5, 64, 97, 99; abolitionism 31–5, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 28–9, 31, 32, 97, 187, 65, 73; see also empire, British 198–202, 206–7; Confessions 198, 200, 201; Smith, Adam 7, 9, 107, 110 Emile 29; Héloise 29, 70; Social Contract 28, 29, Smith, Reverend Sydney 38 170; universalism 29; see also Lister, Anne sociability: ideals of: amiability 63, 67, 72, Rousseau, Pierre 26 73, 75, benevolence 46, 62, 68, chivalry Rowan, Archibald Hamilton 49 84–5, 201, civility 44–5, 53, see also civic Rowlandson, Thomas 129, 132 ideal, gallantry 192, humanity 146, intimacy Russell, Gillian 74, 180 9, 19, 65, manners 44–5, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, Russell, Martha 93–4 73, politeness 5, 43, 44, 45, 50, 67, Russell, William 94 respectability, shift to 56–7, Shaftesburian ideal of 108–9, taste 5, 44, 45, 84, 87–8, 96, scandal: succèsde scandale 187, 197, 201–2, virtue 5, 8, 44, 46, see also companionship; 203, 205 rationality; sites of: beef-shop 45, home 66, Scarborough 189, 202, 204 72, oyster house 45, parks 136, salon 2, science; 85, 87, 96, 100, 132; and lecturing seaside 205, shop 215, 221–2, 230, street 49, 123–4 54–5, 57, see also clubs; coffee-houses; Scott, Sir John 52 lecturing; taverns; theatre; types of: Seddon, John 68, 73 bourgeois 44, 45, 48, 55, carnivalesque 6, sedition 43, 45, 46, 50, 56 16, 54, 194, clubbable 5–6, commercial 5, Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky 170, 193 13, convivial 1, 4, 5, 17–18, 20, 43, 45, 49, Selfridge’s 230 55, 129, Dissenting 90, 93, 98, domestic 73, Sennett, Richard 15 98, 136, 138, 193–4, drunken 1–2, 45, 48, sensibility 6, 8–9, 63, 66, 75, 84, 86, 91, 93, 49, 53, 57, see also toasting, English 3, 108, 109, 118; and religious devotion 87–9; Enlightenment 4, 6, 7–8, 124–5, 127, see also romantic love; sympathy extradomestic 223, fashionable 5, 11, 125,

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127–8, 134, 189, 205, 218, fraternal 25, 35, Stiles, Ezra 27 36, gentlemanly 44, 46, 48, 53, 56, 82, 190, story-telling 15 192, 195, Hanoverian 6–7, 8, heterosexual style 186–90, 191, 196, 197, 198–200, 203, 132–4, 167, heterosocial 191, homosocial, 206–7, 217, 233 female 191, 194, 215, 233, homosocial, male subjectivity 55, 109, 118, 186, 188, 199, 206, 5, 19, 53, 56, 82, 133–4, 215, literary 4, 222; ‘authentic’ 7; intersubjectivity 213, 222; 16–19, 137, 171, see also textuality, masonic, literary 192; masculine 124; private 45; 27, 29, 30–1, modern 233, ‘old-style’ 5, Romantic 200, 206; sincerity 199, 200, 202, periodical 4–8, 12, 13–14, 17–18, 25, polite 5, 206 7, 53, 55, 57, 67, 68, 70, 73, 97, 104, 105, Swift, Edward 57 107, 109, 114, political 25–40, 126, 224, Symonds, Henry 54 popular 51–2, 194, private 5, 17–18, sympathy 8, 16, 118, 155, 159; see also provincial 127, radical 25–40, rational 48, sensibility 53, 67, religious 26–31, 75, sentimental 6, sexual 166–83, 191–206, spectatorial 5, 7, 8, Tarleton, General Banastre 174 16, 51, textual: see textuality, urban 44, 54, Tatler 5–6, 8, 44, 77, 226 62, 69, 74, 77, Whig 109–10, women’s 212, taverns 43–8, 51, 69, 113; Church and King see also anti-sociability; conversation; 47; Crown and Anchor 74, 112–13; Globe, debating; dinners; lecturing; public worship; Lynn 127; the Percy 43–4, 57; conviviality of story-telling 129 social, the: social hierarchy 44; ‘social Taylor, John 75 intercourse’ 125; ‘sociality’ 17–18, 145, 172; textuality 186; conduct books 92–3; diaries social performance 19, 186, 187, 192, 196, 1–2, 4, 9, 11, 166, 187, 198–202, 206; 197, 202, 205–6, see also performativity; handbills 55; literary criticism 12–14, 18; social mobility 202, 206; ‘social table’ 137; periodicals 4–8, 12, 13–14, 17–18, 50, 53, 55, see also class 56, 213; and sociability 175; ‘society of the society: ‘society of the text’, 56 text’ 55, 56; trial texts 51, 52, 53; see also societies, associations 213; Association for letters; literature; press; print culture Preserving Liberty and Property against Thale, Mary 216 Republicans and Levellers 46; theatre 176, 178–82, 216, 217; amateur acting Coachmakers’ Hall Society for Free Debate 124, 138; anti-theatricality 145; closet drama 126; Friends of Liberty 112; Friends of the 158, 161; and dreams 157–9, 162; and gender People 50; Jacobin Society 35; London 224; moral utility of 151, 152; provincial 127, Corresponding Society 45, 47, 49–50, 111, 157; and spectacle 48–9, 54; sociability of 113, 125, 128, 129, 149; Lunar Society of 145–9, 151, 157, 160, 161; spouting 124, Birmingham 36–7; Manchester Society 138–40; and subjectivity 118; theatre for Constitutional Information 35, 57; criticism 146, 147, 148, 151, 152, 161; see also Shefﬁeld Corresponding Society 36–7; pillory; theatricality; William Shakespeare Society for Constitutional Information 49, theatres: Covent Garden 115, 140; Drury 50, 111; Society of the Friends of the People Lane 138, 140; Haymarket 124–5; Royalty 111; United Irishmen 49; voluntary 123; 124 see also lecturing; debating theatricality: of consumerism 224; of friendship Somers, Margaret 51 148; of lecturing 124, 128–9, 139 Southey, Robert 38, 39, 54, 219–21, 224; Thelwall, John 15, 16, 45, 49, 50, 54, 109–10; Letters from England 219–21, 223 conversation poems 118; as lecturer 125–32, Spa Fields riots 211 134, 137, 139, 140; Tribune 114, 126 speaking: see conversation; debating; lecturing; Thompson, E. P. 127, 139 public: oratory; theatre Thompson, Judith 118 Spectator 5–8, 16, 44, 77, 226 toasting 46, 47–8, 49 Spence, Thomas 55, 113–14 Tobin, James 38 spies: see anti-sociability Tobin, John 38 spouting: see theatre Todd, Mary (n´eeEvans) 134 Stallybrass, Peter 55 Toland, John 27 Steele, Richard 5, 44 Tonson, Jacob 174 Stevens, George Alexander 124 Tooke, Horne 15, 49, 50, 52, 54, 111, 113, 175

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Topham, Edward 108, 109, 110 Weller, Barry 134 treason trials 52, 57, 115, 149; see also law Werkmeister, Lucyle 104 trials: see law: courtroom as public space; White, Allon 55 treason trials White, Daniel E. 83, 84 Trimmer, Sarah 71 Whigs: see politics Tuite, Clara 74 Wilkes, John 26, 28, 32 Turner, Wiliam 64, 70 Wilkinson, Mary: see Mary Priestley Twiss, Francis 177, 180, 181 Williams, David 27 Two Acts 125–6 Williams, Helen Maria 2, 25, 33, 34, 40, 74, 112, 114 United States: see America Williams, Raymond 27 universalism 72–3, 76; in Rousseau 29; Williams, Rosalind 230 universal benevolence 110; universal Wilson, Kathleen 3 brotherhood 100 Winterbothom, William 54 Wisbech 126–7 Vaughan, Felix 49 Wollstonecraft, Mary 19, 32, 37, 85, 97, Vickery, Amanda 3 177–8, 180–2; on female homosociality Voltaire 31 175 92–3; and William Godwin 76, 166–83; vulgarity 186, 191, 196–8, 206; vulgar Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden conviviality 55 167, 175, 177, 178, 181; Vindication of the Rights of Woman 91, 175, 177, 231; see also Anna Wakeﬁeld, Gilbert 62, 64, 65, 69, 71, 72, Letitia Barbauld 74–5, 76–7, 98 Woodfall, William 67, 69, 70 Wakeﬁeld, Priscilla 230–3 Woolf, Virginia 174 Walker, Adam 124–5 Wordsworth, Dorothy 39 Walker, Anne 191, 194, 197 Wordsworth, William 1–2, 38–9, 105, 106, Walker, Thomas 35 116-18, 138, 217, 228; ‘Guilt and Sorrow’ Walpole, Horace 71, 74, 112 113-14; Preface to Lyrical Ballads 104, 219; Wardle,R.M. 167, 180 Prelude, The 115, 219; ‘Tintern Abbey’ 115, Warner, Michael 11, 206, 216–18 118 Watt, Gregory 37–8 World, The 108, 110 Watt, James 35–6 Wycherley, William 225; The Country Wife Watt, James Jr 35 225 Wedgwood, Thomas 169 Wedgwood family 176 Yarmouth 126–8 Weintraub, Jeff 10 York 191, 194, 205 Weishaupt, Adam 30 Yorke, Henry 53