Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite.

Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite, ed Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary improvement in Britain, 1770-1840. New York: Cambridge University Pres 2002 Pp xii, 267 $6000 ISBN 0-521-77068-8

Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite have edited a collection of essays that recast Romantic agriculture as one of interaction, relationship, and network rather than solitude, reflection, and retirement. If Enlightenment sociability, particularly as theorized and idealized by means of Jurgen Habermas's "public sphere," transpired in coffeehouses and form a clubs Romantic sociability, ...

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