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On Conversation (1793) [ Concepts ]
… few examples the advantages of political discussion undebauched by political enmity and vehemence, and the beauty of the spectacle will soon render the example contagious. Every man will {215} commune with his neighbour. Every man will be …
Conversation
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At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… a mat to step upon. I shall never forget his extreme politeness. Oh, Mr. Frank Church- hill, I must tell you my mother's spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again. My mother often talks of your good-nature: …
Fiction | Dance | Benevolence | Happiness
Anthology
Auction houses [ Trade ]
… to Town’. 8 The auction house pursued this ideal of sociable parity and community, making it the very motor of its spectacle, as bids that settled the price and ownership of artefacts were supposedly taken from the crowd … lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor for sociable meetings. Auction doubled as a spectacle where people looked at unique artefacts while observing how other bidders’ appraised them, prompted by the … to ensure that sales did not translate into loss. There remained powerful anxieties around the participation in such a spectacle of greed, financial dispersion and old money pitted against new money – these powerful currents threatened …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
Advertisement | Chinoiserie | Entertainement | Exoticism | Luxury | Masquerade | Pleasure gardens | Politeness
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
Advertisement | Audience | Collecting | Entertainement | Print culture | Theatre
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… among an even wider public. This ‘publication‘ of Pamela’s story is consonant with B’s general efforts to make a spectacle of Pamela in other ways, by having her tell stories in salons and even reciting himself one of her poems before …
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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