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Solitude [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… > Feelings and Emotions Keywords loneliness Religion Social relations Conversation Gender roles Politeness melancholy privacy In 1711 Joseph Addison spoke of his vision for his new periodical, The Spectator . In his desire to entertain and … to us – as a state of being either temporarily or permanently alone – entered the English vocabulary. 4 2 . Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), p. xv. 3 . Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of … the world was harmful and ‘one might only be able to constitute oneself as a substantial character in retirement and privacy’. 12  The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, also spoke of how time spent alone represented not retreat, but …

Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]

… group of guests. […] The movement from the first half to the second half of Richardson’s novel is the movement from the privacy of the prison and the tête-à-tête to the world of society and the salon, the movement from private reading to … between writer and addressee(s) need to be constantly kept going. Yet, at the same time, letter-writing necessitates privacy, as Richardson explains when he writes to Sophia Westcomb: ‘the pen is jealous of company. It expects […] to …

Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… ‘Coffee-House Politicians’, Journal of British Studies (43:2, April 2004), p. 206-232; Brian Cowan, ‘Publicity and Privacy in the History of the British Coffeehouse’, History Compass (5:4, July 2007), p. 1180-1213. Coffeehouses were … on 08/15/2022, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/coffeehouses.html Further Reading Cowan, Brian, ‘Publicity and Privacy in the History of the British Coffeehouse‘,  History Compass (5:4, July 2007), p. 1180-1213, …

Beau Nash [ Fashion ]

… in the re-creation of Bath: between health and entertainment, the openness of a new society and a later trend towards privacy, and ultimately tensions between the therapeutic, highly theatrical display of the self and the retirement ideal. …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… of scripts. Reality matched fiction, thus generating a new way to publicly consume private life. At that moment, privacy, subjectivity and the family dimension became ‘appealing to a wide public of readers’ (Habermas 51). Lounges and …