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.

Zusammenfassung
"In this engaging book, Amy Prendergast focuses primarily on the period between 1750 and the 1820s ... . this book has much to recommend it. It is a most enjoyable and at times thought-provoking read, whose comparative approach gives it an edge and a freshness while allowing it to advance the historiography of literary salons in Ireland, England and France and pave the way for future research." (Rachel Wilson, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, February, 2016)

Inhalt
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