Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. The Theory and Practice of Associational Life
7. 1 Politeness, Sociability, and the “Little Platoon”: Associational Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment 33
8. 2 Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c. 1700–1830 49
9. PART II. Professional Men and Their Societies
10. 3 Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment 69
11. 4 Professors, Merchants, and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow 85
12. PART III. Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture
13. 5 “Soaping” and “Shaving” the Public Sphere: James Boswell’s “Soaping Club” and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability 103
14. 6 The “Bohemian Club”: A Study of Edinburgh’s Cape Club 127
15. 7 “Caledonia’s Bard, Brother Burns”: Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry 143
16. 8 Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland 161
17. PART IV. Gender and Associational Culture
18. 9 Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity in Enlightenment Edinburgh 191
19. 10 Women’s Associations in Scotland, 1790–1830 206
20. Acknowledgments 229
21. Bibliography 231
22. Notes on Contributors 257
23. Index 261