British Sociability in the European Enlightenment

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Cham on the Seine: Dr Johnson in Paris (and Mrs Thrale)

Chapter 3 Enlightened Fratriotism: Boswell in Corsica, Paoli in London

Chapter 4 Communing with the Fictional Dead: Grave Tourism and the Sentimental Novel

Chapter 5 Medicinal Sociability: British Bluestockings and the Continental Spa

Chapter 6 Philip Thicknesse’s Sociable Encounters in France: The Politics of Eccentricity

Chapter 7 Elizabeth Craven, Private Theatricals and Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers

Chapter 8 “The English can’t waltz, never can, never will”: The Politics of Waltzing in Romantic Britain

Chapter 9 Sociable Encounters in Model Commercial Letters

Chapter 10 ‘Musick in their Company’: (Per)Forming Friendship and Early Enlightenment Sociability in Frances Brooke’s The History of Lady Julia Mandeville

Chapter 11 Robinson Crusoe: Speech, Conversation, Sociability

Chapter 12 Reshaping the Leviathan: A Commonwealth Built around Sociable Encounters in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks