Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Keywords Civility Conversation Consumption Periodicals Politeness was a key word in eighteenth-century Britain, and its meanings were actualized in many areas of … However, a number of Englishmen, Mandeville’s exact contemporaries, sought to anchor politeness in real virtue. In their periodicals , the Tatler (1709-1711) and the Spectator (1711-1712, 1714), Richard Steele (1672-1729) and Joseph Addison … of literate people, both male and female. This was an explicit goal of the Tatler and the Spectator and the numerous periodicals that followed in their wake throughout the century; it was also implicit in Shaftesbury 's attempt to equip …
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