The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume had its genesis in a conference, The Concept and Practice
of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, organised at the Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at
the University of Cambridge in October 2005. We would like to
acknowledge the financial support provided at that stage by the British
Academy, CRASSH, and King’s College, Cambridge. We are also grateful
to all the participants at the conference, in particular to the chairs of and
respondents to the various sessions, and to Peter de Bolla, Simon Goldhill,
and Ludmilla Jordanova. We would like to express our gratitude to the
Syndics of Cambridge University Library, the Walters Art Museum, The
Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Fine
Art, the New York Historical Society, the National Portrait Gallery,
London, and the Royal Albert Memorial Gallery, Exeter, for permission to
reproduce material from their holdings. We would also like to thank
Rosalind Crone, Kate Griffiths, Luke Houghton, Amanda Millar, Maartje
Scheltens and Richard Serjeantson for their help in the preparation of the
manuscript. Sadly, Professor Jay Fliegelman did not live to see this
volume published, but we owe a debt of gratitude to him, and to his widow
Christine, for their dedication in preparing his chapter for publication
under very difficult circumstances.