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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… the Americas, Asia and later from Australia. The exhibition of unfamiliar animals resulted into polite and satirical conversations about the trade, the cultural meaning and the social interactions of exotic animals with Londoners during … a physical proximity with tamed exotic animals was highly advertised as a social and a pleasurable practice stimulating conversation about broader cultural debates. Like the concert, the theatre , and museums, a menagerie fostered … a turtle. According to Georgian polite table etiquette, the serving of turtle soup at the beginning of the dinner was a ‘conversation starter and distraction between the first soup course and the second more substantial course’ (Plumb 73). …
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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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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… When his grand-children visited him, he kept to his study. 3 With his friends, he preferred epistolary exchanges to conversation as his son William explained bluntly in an unpublished note kept at the Bodelian library: Some of my … have been in running from one levee to another. ( Mary Granville 91-92) The unsociable correspondent preferred written conversation to meetings. In an 1801 letter, he explained how he managed to cope with the afflux of visitors he had to …
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