Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… by many male writers – see for example how Sterne depicts Yorick’s encounter with the French fille de chambre in his Sentimental Journey (1768). Women in contexts of polite sociability could ward off at least some of these advances when … Sexual Revolution (London, Allen Lane, 2012). Dickie, Simon, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Fletcher, Anthony, Gender, Sex and … Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). ____ Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). O’Brien, Karen, Women …
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