Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… Coffeehouses were idealized by early eighteenth-century writers and theorists of sociability such as Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in their Tatler (1709-1711) and Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) periodicals. In The Spectator , Addison famously … in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.’ ( The Spectator n° 10 , 12 March 1711) Addison’s and Steele’s essays in these papers played an important role in establishing an ideal of polite, urban sociability that they …
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