Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Gender Kissing Propriety Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte Montgomery, notes: ‘Dancing introduces a kind of familiarity that would be quite inadmissible in a drawing room. When a gentleman solicits … (Edinburgh, 1793). But see p. 21 for concerns about spontaneous conduct, such as laughter or showing spirit while dancing, being read for deeper and damning significance. 7 . Bonnie Hain and Carole McAllister, ‘James Boswell’s Ms. …
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