Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… This article will not repeat data easily accessible elsewhere about Steele’s career as a politician and writer but instead focus on his ideas relating to sociability. 1 Even so, there are elements of his life that are worth highlighting … aspired to bring ‘ philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee–houses’. 9 Readers were encouraged to set aside part of their morning to read the paper ‘as a part of the tea-equipage’. 10 As this suggests, for Steele and Addison, f emale and male sociability overlapped (both should be …
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