Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 2

Markman Ellis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351568685
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Coffee: a tale (1727)
• The Velvet Coffee-woman (1728)
• Coffee-man, The Case of the Coffee-men of London and Westminter [sic] ([1728])
• The case between the proprietors of news-papers, and the subscribing coffee-men, fairly stated (1729)
• The case between the proprietors of news-papers, and the coffee-men of London and Westminster, fairly stated ([1729])
• James Salter, A catalogue of the rarities to be seen at Don Saltero’s Coffeehouse in Chelsea (1729)
• Anthony Hilliar, A Brief and Merry History of Great Britain ([1730])
• The Life and Character of Moll King, late mistress of King’s Coffee-house in Covent-garden ([1747])
• Arthur Murphy, ‘[Account of Jonathan’s Coffee-House]’; ‘[Proposal for a Female Coffee-House]’ ([1753–4])
• George’s coffee house. A poem (1761)
• Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee-House (1763)
• The British coffee-house. A poem (1764)
• A Sunday Ramble; or, Modern Sabbath-Day Journey ([1776])
• Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz, A Picture of England (1789)
• Explanatory Notes