Women, sociability and theatre in Georgian London / Gillian Russell
- Bib ID:
- 3999045
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Russell, Gillian
- Description:
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
- xii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521867320
- 0521867320
- Summary:
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"Mid-eighteenth-century London witnessed a major expansion in public culture as a result of a rapidly commercializing society. Of the many new sites of entertainment, the most celebrated (and often notorious) were the Carlisle House and Pantheon assembly rooms, and the Ladies Club or Coterie. In the first major study of these institutions and the fashionable sociability they epitomized, Gillian Russell examines how they transformed metropolitan cultural life. Associated with lavish masquerades, excesses of fashion such as elaborate hairstyles, and scandalous intrigues, these venues suggested a feminization of public life which was profoundly threatening, not least to the theatre of the period. In this illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of the eighteenth century, Russell reveals new perspectives on theatre and on canonical plays such as The School for Scandal, as well as suggesting a pre-history for British Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Circe of Soho : Teresa Cornelys and Carlisle House
- 3. Harmonic routs and midnight revels : the politics of masquerade
- 4. 'Dissipation's hydra reign' : Almack's and the Coterie
- 5. 'Welcome to the Pleasure Dome' : the London Pantheon
- 6. Lady Bab and Mrs Ab : the woman of fashion and the theatre
- 7. 'Alias, alias, alias' : the trials of the Duchess of Kingston
- 8. 'Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er'
- 9. Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's N copy signed and inscribed by the author.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Copyright:
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