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Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… both men and women, but their significance for eighteenth-century sociability goes deeper than this. Their decorative nature, their satisfying intricacy and their monetary value – combined with their detachability and portability – made …
Consumption | Dance | Shoes
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Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… were an important factor in social interactions. Footwear therefore gives us an insight into the physical and material nature of eighteenth-century sociability. Partager Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter …
Dance | Dress | Elite | Gender | Shoes
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… hand really belongs to him, for the time; and if he persists in taking it a little after the time, it would be very ill-natured to withdraw it – unless one did not like him. For my part I found something so admirably persuasive in the touch … we can find a range of novels detailing the seduction and abandonment of women without protection – as in Inchbald’s Nature and Art (1797), Alderson’s The Father and Daughter (1801), Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Women (1797) and Hay’s …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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