British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries [electronic resource] /
Schmid, S.author.
British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments                      ; Abbreviations                    ; 1 Traditions and Theories                                ; Salons as Non-Places                           ; Traditions I: The French Salons                                      ; Traditions II: The Bluestockings                                       ; Private, Public, and Sociable Spheres                                            ; The Theatricality of the Salon                                     ; Sources and Source Problems
Stages of Exploration                            2 Mary Berry and Her British Spaces                                          ; Mary Berry: The Life of a Conservative Feminist                                                      ; The Misses Otranto, Strawberry Hill, and Horace Walpole's Family Romances                                                                                ; Anne Damer                 ; From the Closet to Drury Lane: Fashionable Friends (1801) on Stage
3 Mary Berry as a Learned Woman: Out of the Closet                                                         From a Parmesan Otranto to Malthus: Mary Berry's Reading                                                               ; In and Out of the Drawing-Rooms in North Audley Street and Curzon Street                                                                               ; The Freedom of the Road in France and Italy                                                  ; Mary Berry as Editor and Historian
4 Holland House and Lady Holland                                       Holland House and Whig Culture                                     ; Lady and Lord Holland                            ; Reflections on Traveling: Italy and Spain                                                ; Politics: Enthusiasm for Napoleon                                        ; Spontaneous Versification                                ; 5 The Holland House Set                              ; The Circle and Its Oracle: The Edinburgh Review
Three Habitués: Samuel Rogers, Sydney Smith, and Thomas Moore                                                                    Byron and Holland House                              ; Amorous Entanglements and Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon                                                          ; 6 The Countess of Blessington as Hostess                                               ; From Irish Country Girl to London's Outcast Queen: Lady Blessington's Life
The Conversations of Lord Byron
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.