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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… say, it is at once an item of furniture, a gathering at which tea is consumed, and a hybrid form of polite heterosocial sociability that occupies a liminal zone between public and private spheres. Each of these aspects is closely embedded in the discourse of sociability as it was practised and understood in the British Enlightenment. The context for tea-table sociability is the emergence of the consumption of tea, the hot infusion of the oxidized and prepared leaves of Camellia …
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… commodities. In addition, Hume emphasizes the fact that the refinement created by a responsible use of luxury leads to sociability: The more these refined arts advance, the more sociable men become : nor is it possible, that, when enriched … example furniture, paintings and tableware, were displayed as symbols of taste and of belonging to the genteel circles, sociability played an important part (Berg 39). Documenting taste and social status, many luxury items, such as the china … par Email Imprimer l'article View PDF Cite this article SCHMID Susanne, "Luxury", The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 04/22/2024, URL: …
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