Achieving manhood in associational culture: student societies and masculinity in Enlightenment Edinburgh
Carr, Rosalind (2020) Achieving manhood in associational culture: student societies and masculinity in Enlightenment Edinburgh. In: Wallace, M. and Rendall, J. (eds.) Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. Lewisburg, U.S.: Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9781684482665.
Abstract
Book synopsis: 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.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Masculinity, Gender, Youth, History, Scotland, Enlightenment |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Rosalind Carr |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2021 08:14 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31728 |
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