Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: The Theory and Practice of Associational Life
Chapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theory
in the Scottish Enlightenment
David Allan
Chapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700‒1830                
Bob Harris                                                                                                              
Part II: Professional Men and Their Societies
Chapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment                                                                
Jacqueline Jenkinson       
Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow
Ralph McLean           
Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture                                                     
Chapter 5: "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability
James J. Caudle                                                                                                                            
Chapter 6: The "Bohemian Club": A Study of Edinburgh's Cape Club                                                       
Rhona Brown                                                                                                                
­Chapter 7: "Caledonia's Bard, Brother Burns": Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry            
Corey E. Andrews                                                
Chapter 8: Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland                         
Martyn J. Powell                    
Part IV:  Gender and Associational Culture                   
Chapter 9: Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity      
in Enlightenment Edinburgh
Rosalind Carr                                                                                                                    
Chapter 10: Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790‒1830                                           
Jane Rendall                                                                                                                     
Acknowledgments
Bibliography              
Notes on Contributors                                                                                                               
Index