The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.

Amy Prendergast is Adjunct Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She completed her doctoral studies there in 2012 after being awarded a PRTLI Government of Ireland scholarship, and was subsequently the recipient of an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. This is her first monograph.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The French Salon: Its Foreign Participants and Hosts
2. A French Phenomenon Embraced: The Literary Salon in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. "Never was a flock so scattered for want of a shepherdess": Elizabeth Vesey Between England and Ireland
4. Moira House Salon: A Site for Irish Scholarship
5. Collaborative Hospitality and Cultural Transfers: Provincial Salons Across England and Ireland
6. ' 'Dublin is Attribilaire ' ' - The Changing Nature of Elite Sociability
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