Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… suggests a growing culture of polite sociability across the course of the eighteenth century. One dimension of this ‘politeness’ is the extent to which men came to respect and pay due deference to conventions of physical etiquette that … p. 170. The literature on British sociability over the long eighteenth century points to the emergence of a culture of politeness, sociability and sensibility that came to discipline the behaviour of men in relation to women, moderating the … Hutton’s evocative reference to that additional stolen moment of touch. 2 . For example, Soile Ylivuori, Women and Politeness in Eighteenth Century England (London: Routledge, 2018) 3 . Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: A History …
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