British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
- ISBN-10
- 1783273593
- ISBN-13
- 9781783273591
- Category
- France
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-05-23
- Publisher
- Boydell Press
- Authors
- Alain Kerhervé, Valérie Capdeville
Description
This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe.
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