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… 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 … reminiscent of the seventeenth-century French salons . Doing so, they highlighted that the core tenets of sociability – politeness and conversation 4 – could in fact be practised without the luxurious parapharnelia of tea by the upper and … the journalistic rhetoric of female virtuous sociability. They thus debunked the hypocritical foundation of Whig politeness and sociability which was so powerfully staged by the press. T he model of polite female sociability was so …
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