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… of middle-class sociability. The tea-table is a case in point, around which the two sexes gathered, read periodical essays together, which provided subject matter to polite conversation. Periodicals, however, also staged new forms of … in their columns, constructing communities of readers which they endeavoured to instruct and educate. Periodical essayists promoted a Whig reformist agenda, which dictated new forms of sociability along gender lines. They projected an … Mots-clés Commerce Correspondence Femininity Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press were largely associated with male coffeehouse …
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