… was a growing interest in the language of politeness and urban sociability that had already been mapped in works like JosephAddison ’s Spectator (1711-12) and even Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1714; 2nd ed ., 1723) – texts that many …
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… ‘faint and Spiritless’ charms are supposedly easily identified through observation and comparison. Steele, much like JosephAddison , often commented on the nature of beauty and the effect of the manners on the countenance. Their recognition of …