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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
Clans | Gentleman | Masculinity | Rake | Violence
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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… and worn apparel, standing erect in the press. The figure was tall and thin, and the countenance expressive of care and anxiety; but there was something in the hue of the skin, and gaunt and unearthly appearance of the whole form, which no …
Fiction | Inn
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… often be less dangerous than friendship with another woman. 14 The rise of polite culture may even have enhanced the anxiety surrounding false friendship. This was a time when manners, language, gestures, and deportment were increasingly … They were so closely connected, in fact, that the potential for friendship to become an enmity was a constant source of anxiety for eighteenth-century moralists and conduct-book writers. Whilst enmity was a destructive and negative … clear cut and unambiguous. It was false friends rather than enemies that had the potential to do the greatest harm. The anxiety that surrounded friendship formation was heightened by the rise of politeness in the eighteenth-century. This …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
Community | Conviviality | French Revolution | Friendship | Travel | War
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White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… meant treading a fine line between acceptable evasion and the accusation of dishonesty, and thus led to a good deal of anxiety and even pre-emptive protestations of honesty in an act of self-defence. Frances Burney, for instance, … but also demand firm control of the polite person’s creatureliness’ (113). The body may serve as an indicator of social anxiety on such occasions, it is not allowed to be heard as well as seen, or to show its basic functions, such as – in …
Conversation | Falsehood | Lies | Politeness
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
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Street sociability [ Cities ]
… on city streets – in which intra-class conflict was played out. 12 The rewards and awful punishments meted out reflect anxiety about who one might meet on the streets. 10 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in …
Crime | Streets | Rules | Women
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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