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… itself shows the intimate relationship the Spectator ’s authors wished to establish between reading such ephemeral prints and shaping people’s social behaviours. Reading periodicals was conceived as an essentially collective activity. … their value from the luxurious material objects which had occasioned them, – the tea sets – to cheap yet enlightening prints 3 which would turn each tea /coffee table assembly into exclusive circles reminiscent of the seventeenth-century … Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 211-245. Shevelow, Kathryn, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Ea rly Periodical (London: Routledge, 1989). In the DIGIT.EN.S …
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