Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of social spaces. In eighteenth-century Britain, it was on the street that gentlemen and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors. The streets demanded new rules of behaviour, new ‘rules of … of sociability, eighteenth-century commentators were just as fascinated by the sociability of the street, and especially with the streets of London. These alfresco demotic spaces witnessed innumerable cross-class and cross-gender encounters that sit awkwardly at the intersection of several …
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