Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century [Hardcover]

The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The French Salon: Its Foreign Participants and Hosts
2. A French Phenomenon Embraced: The Literary Salon in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. Never was a flock so scattered for want of a shepherdess : Elizabeth Vesey Between England and Ireland
4. Moira House Salon: A Site for Irish Scholarship
5. Collaborative Hospitality and Cultural Transfers: Provincial Salons Across England and Ireland
6. ' 'Dublin is Attribilaire ' ' - The Changing Nature of Elite Sociability
Bibliography
Index

The main thrust of the monograph is a neglected area of scholarship: that of Irelands own lively salon culture in the eighteenth century & . As well as being useful to those working in the fields of elite sociability and womens education in the eighteenth century, this book also finds a place in the emerging field of four nations studies, which aims to move scholarship away from the hegemonic dominance of England-focused work in the context of studies of Britain and Ireland. (Miranda Reading, Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 41 (04), December, 2018)

Prendergasts primary aim is to connect the Irish salons of the Romantic period to gatherings in France and England in which their members circulated and whose cultural and literary ambitions they shared. & Prendergast brings an impressive amount of archival research to bear upon the story she tells, and anyone seeking to understand how salon culture crossed the Irish Sea will nelsO