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… and educate. Periodical essayists promoted a Whig reformist agenda, which dictated new forms of sociability along gender lines. They projected an ideal of reasonable femininity which largely restricted female sociability to the … & Artistic genres Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Commerce Correspondence Femininity Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press … prevailed in the first half of the eighteenth century, staged and gave birth to new forms of mixed sociability based on gender balance and politeness. Essay periodicals , which could be dailies like The Spectator (1711-1712/1714) or The …
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