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Riots, Revelries, and Rumor: Libertinism and Masculine Association in Enlightenment London

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Jason M. Kelly

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of british studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1545-6986

pISSN - 0021-9371

DOI - 10.1086/505957

Subject(s) - rumor , enlightenment , association (psychology) , content (measure theory) , media studies , history , sociology , advertising , political science , psychology , epistemology , law , philosophy , business , psychotherapist , mathematical analysis , mathematics

O Friday, 30 January 1734/5, eight men met each other at the Golden Eagle Tavern on Suffolk Street in the West End. All but one of them were members of the Society of Dilettanti, a group formed three years earlier by gentlemen who had met each other on the Grand Tour. Some were nobles, such as Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex, but all of them were well known, both in Italy and London, for their youthful indulgences. That Friday evening was already charged with popular political tension, since it was the

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