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The Society of Dilettanti

The Society of Dilettanti

Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment

by Jason M. Kelly

Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre

366 Pages, 7.50 x 10.00 in, 125 b-w + 43 color illus.

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9780300152197
Published: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010

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In 1732 a group of elite young men who had met on the grand tour formed a convivial dining club called the Society of Dilettanti. By the middle of the 18th century the Dilettanti took on an influential role in cultural matters, organizing archaeological expeditions, forming the Royal Academy and the British Museum, and ultimately becoming one of the most prominent and influential societies of the British Enlightenment.

This lively and illuminating account is the most detailed analysis of the early Society of Dilettanti to date. Jason M. Kelly places the group at the complex intersection of international and national discourses that shaped the British Enlightenment; thus, it sheds new light on 18th-century grand tourism, elite masculinity, sociability, aesthetics, architecture, and archaeology.

Jason M. Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis.

"[M]eticulously researched and elegantly presented . . . [a] fine and important study."—W.C. Lubenow, Journal of British Studies
~W.C. Lubenow, Journal of British Studies

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