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Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
Education | Conversation | Gender | Friendship | Children
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
Conflict | Friendship | Gender | Sex | Women
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… conceptions of sociability, which regarded female relationships as particularly emotionally interested and affectionate, provided greater occasion for both intimacy and estrangement. The Scottish physician Alexander Monro warned … when individuals ‘not only cloud their real Sentiments and Intentions, but make Profession of, and seem zealously to affect the contrary: This by a more proper and restrain’d Name is call’d Deceit’. 16 10 . Lawrence E. Klein, ‘Gender, …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… to ‘not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world […] ’. 3 Austen’s correspondence also shows … for while respectable courtship was conducted openly under the surveillance of the social group, the expression of real affection and desire required private communication. Covert affairs, like that of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill in … groups. But succeeding generations of readers have held Austen’s characters and the author herself in such familiar affection that a popular cult of Austenolotry grew up around her fictions. 14 From the mid-twentieth century, literary …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… were often negative, especially in the seventeenth century. The absence of company was widely recognised to adversely affect spiritual, mental, and physical health. The frontispiece to Robert Burton’s seminal work, The Anatomy of …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
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Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… being finalized Opie met a young woman, Miss Booth, with very good financial prospects (£4,000 pa), and he engaged her affections. He asked Farington to plead his cause with the father (a lawyer), who he thought likely to be obdurate. …
Art | Conventions | Diaries | Gender | Gossip
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Hobbes or, more recently, Bernard Mandeville, that humans were not naturally vested with any sociable propensities or affections in what was sometimes called the ‘ state of nature. ’ This raised a set of further questions, prompted in part …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… less physical, terms, and as they became educated, they also became more equal, commanding the respect as well as the affections of the opposite sex. 14 Kames and Millar were silent on the persistent impact of differences of class and …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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