Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… to donate a turtle in order to signify his status and generosity (Plumb 71). In line with Joseph Addison and Richard Steele ’s conversational model aimed at promoting an ideal of polite sociability, the exotic appears to be a topic of …
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