Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Century England (London: Routledge, 2018) 3 . Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (London: Allen Lane, 2012), p. 354. In 1715-16, when he was 24, the aspiring lawyer, later High Court Judge, … playwrights – and largely ignored by many male writers – see for example how Sterne depicts Yorick’s encounter with the French fille de chambre in his Sentimental Journey (1768). Women in contexts of polite sociability could ward off at … saw as a reasonable interpretation of it – whether a kiss was familial(r); whether it was a mere salutation (which the French were known for), 10 but which does not seem to have been encouraged or accepted in Britain); whether it was seen …
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