ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issues of national identity, regionalism, patriotism, dynasticism, class, and rank entered the salon space in more detail by focusing on the Bluestockings and their transnational networks. It focuses- on correspondences and travel diaries by Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey, Lady Anna Miller, Sarah Scott, Sophie von La Roche, and Mme du Deffand to think about the particularities of polite patriotism, cosmopolitan aspirations, and cultural transfer in eighteenth-century English salon culture. Cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and cultural transfer are all paradigms that try to embed humanity into different forms of community along the axis of the local/regional and the universal. In fact, Elizabeth Montagu, her family, and indeed Bluestockings had good contact to the Court Society of George III and Queen Charlotte. The concept of cosmopolitanism in the interactions between the Bluestockings, the Court, and European salonnires and intellectuals is the complex product of a Europe socially and culturally connected. One part of the exchange takes place through cultural transfer.
