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Chapter 4 - Drinking, Dancing, Talking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2022

Carys Brown
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University of Cambridge
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Religious differences also shaped the voluntary social interactions that formed the basis of the burgeoning culture of eighteenth-century England. Chapter 4 looks at some of these practices – drinking, dancing, and coffeehouse culture – through the lens of Dissenting engagement with them in a context of continuing religious stereotyping. Although Dissenters were not excluded from the social practices of the eighteenth century, religious affiliation was an important determinant of how contemporaries interpreted their own, and others’, social interactions. Looking at Dissenters’ differing engagements with contemporary culture, and how others reacted to them, helps us to recognise the diverse ways in which contemporaries could make meaning from the common cultural modes and spaces of eighteenth-century England. This approach not only encourages a more expansive understanding of the varieties of cultural interaction in eighteenth-century England, but also highlights some of the crucial ways in which awareness of religious differences shaped social and cultural behaviour.

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Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
Religious Difference and English Society, 1689–1750
, pp. 151 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Drinking, Dancing, Talking
  • Carys Brown, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009221375.005
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  • Drinking, Dancing, Talking
  • Carys Brown, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009221375.005
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  • Drinking, Dancing, Talking
  • Carys Brown, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009221375.005
Available formats
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