Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… of Englishmen, Mandeville’s exact contemporaries, sought to anchor politeness in real virtue. In their periodicals , the Tatler (1709-1711) and the Spectator (1711-1712, 1714), Richard Steele (1672-1729) and Joseph Addison (1672-1719) … and rendered accessible to a wider segment of literate people, both male and female. This was an explicit goal of the Tatler and the Spectator and the numerous periodicals that followed in their wake throughout the century; it was also …
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