Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ] Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women Encyclopedia
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ] … Image John Closterman, 'Maurice Ashley-Cooper; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 5308, circa 1700-1701. Abstract Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), is … Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit Encyclopedia
Laughter [ Communication ] … Image William Hogarth, ‘The Laughing Audience (or A Pleased Audience)’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D21374, 1733. Abstract Laughter was considered fundamental to sociability in eighteenth-century … Humour | Impoliteness | Laughter | Manners | Politeness | Taste | Wit Encyclopedia
Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ] … Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Joseph Addison’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 3193, circa 1712. Abstract Joseph Addison was an important theorist of sociability best known for … Literature | Manners | Periodicals | Politeness | Whigs | Wit Encyclopedia