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… 005727193, 1746. Abstract The rise of the leisure press after 1690 caused the appearance of new forms of middle-class sociability. The tea-table is a case in point, around which the two sexes gathered, read periodical essays together, which provided subject matter to polite conversation. Periodicals, however, also staged new forms of sociability in their columns, constructing … 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 Guardian …
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