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    Association and Enlightenment
    Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

    Mark C. Wallace (Edited by), Jane Rendall (Edited by), Christopher A. Whatley (Foreword by), David Allan (Contributions by), Bob Harris (Contributions by), Jacqueline Jenkinson (Contributions by), Ralph McLean (Contributions by), James J. Caudle (Contributions by), Rhona Brown (Contributions by), Corey Andrews (Contributions by), Martyn Powell (Contributions by), Rosalind Carr (Contributions by)

    9781684482665

    Paperback / softback, published 18 December 2020

    284 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.399 kg

    "[A] useful new perspective on the era of the Scottish Enlightenment that offers readers much stimulating material and many insightful interpretations."
    — David Spadafora, author of The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    "The editors have brought together a volume that explores all that we have discovered about the place of clubs and societies in Scotland during the long eighteenth century, answering many of the questions posed so long ago in Davis D. McElroy's pioneering study of 1969. Bucknell has published what will be a lasting and essential work."
    — Stephen Brown, co-editor of Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800

    "Handsomely produced." 
    — Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society newsletter

    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.


    Foreword
    List of Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Part I: The Theory and Practice of Associational Life
    Chapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theory
    in the Scottish Enlightenment
    David Allan
    Chapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700‒1830 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Bob Harris  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Part II: Professional Men and Their Societies
    Chapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Jacqueline Jenkinson  
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow
    Ralph McLean  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 5: "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability
    James J. Caudle  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 6: The "Bohemian Club": A Study of Edinburgh's Cape Club 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Rhona Brown  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 7: "Caledonia's Bard, Brother Burns": Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Corey E. Andrews 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 8: Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Martyn J. Powell  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Part IV: 
    Gender and Associational Culture 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 9: Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity  
     
     
     
     

    in Enlightenment Edinburgh
    Rosalind Carr  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Chapter 10: Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790‒1830 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Jane Rendall  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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