Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… a turtle in order to signify his status and generosity (Plumb 71). In line with Joseph Addison and Richard Steele ’s conversational model aimed at promoting an ideal of polite sociability, the exotic appears to be a topic of good-humoured conversation which reflected and shaped broader economic and political debates. In his famous essay on the Royal Exchange … and even their dissection attracted the audiences for museums and menageries drawing together a network of naturalists, conversationalists and intellectuals. At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, the first person in Britain to be …
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