Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… club was supposed to donate a turtle in order to signify his status and generosity (Plumb 71). In line with Joseph Addison and Steele’s conversational model aimed at promoting an ideal of polite sociability, the exotic appears to be a … and spectators could expect to take afternoon tea while watching and conversing about living or dead animals. 6 . Joseph Addison, The Spectator (no. 69, 19 May 1711). 7 . Her gravestone epitaph appears to be a memorial poem alluding to …
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