Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Image James Gillray, 'A broad hint of not meaning to dance', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D12835, 1804. Abstract The historiography suggests a growing culture of polite … women as putting them at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Keywords Conduct Conventions Dance Gender Kissing Propriety Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte Montgomery, … the slightly forbidden element of this touch – the tentative extension of the formal privilege extended by entering the dance – that accentuated its significance against a background of wider restrictive conventions concerning when an …
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