Abstracts

Valérie Capdeville — Les clubs londoniens: vie nocturne et transgression London clubs are, as one might expect, inherently associated with nightlife, since most of their activities happen to take place at night. As the century advances with the progress of lighting, the ‘colonisation of night’ becomes an important feature of social urban diversions. Significantly enough, those ‘nocturnal assemblies’, as Joseph Addison calls them in The Spectator no 9, develop in parallel to the intensificatio..