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This article examines early modern English public houses and related period miscellany—broadside ballads, conduct books, and songs—to more closely investigate the discourses and performances of drinking culture. Drinking culture, I argue, not only had a significant role in shaping the Restoration's civic culture of political participation and the emerging early modern public sphere, but also positioned emotions of pleasure and melancholy as social and political objects of care and cultivation. While the politics of pub culture and intoxication have been well documented by historians and literary scholars of early modern England and eighteenth-century America, much of this discussion has not yet been incorporated into political assessments of the public sphere and its history. Reinserting emotion and intoxication into the emergence of the public sphere helps to flesh out the history of feeling and social ritual in civic engagement.

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Reckoning with Settler Memory: Barbara Arneil’s Domestic Colonies and Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People

Intoxicated Reasons, Rational Feelings: Rethinking the Early Modern English Public Sphere

Constitutional Turns and Corporate Responses to the Empire of Uniformity

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Reckoning with Settler Memory: Barbara Arneil’s Domestic Colonies and Adam Dahl’s Empire of the People

Intoxicated Reasons, Rational Feelings: Rethinking the Early Modern English Public Sphere

Constitutional Turns and Corporate Responses to the Empire of Uniformity