Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

MARK WALLACE is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 

JANE RENDALL is an honorary fellow of the History Department and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York (UK). 

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