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… This sense of the coffeehouse as a masculine space would only be reinforced later in the eighteenth century by the Johnsonian ideal of manly conversation promoted by James Boswell in his Life of Johnson (1791). 8 7 . Brian Cowan, ‘What Was Masculine about the Public Sphere? Gender and the Coffeehouse Milieu in Post-Restoration England’, History Workshop Journal (51, 2001), p. 127–157. 8 . Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2019). The gradual assimilation of the …
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