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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
Health | Irrational Crowd | Nature | Religion | Supernaturalism
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… flourishing of books and journals thanks to the new print techniques: ‘Travellers as well as books, be they novels or advice manuals, disseminated these new values, conveying the sense of a modern taste for sociable encounters. 3 2 . Harold … Thomas Burger (Cambridge: Polity, 1991), p. 91. The Law of Opinion and Reputation aimed at offsetting the ‘virtues and vices’ of private and public lives, especially those belonging to famous and powerful politicians. In England, the … longer any holding back (Habermas 50). Laurence Sterne claimed a social role for the novelist through reflections and advice as they were sketches of scripts. Reality matched fiction, thus generating a new way to publicly consume private …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… Knight and Lacey, 1824), p. 9. 3 . See also The Spectator, n° 99 (23 June 1711). 4 . Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic Vice. The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale …
Antagonism | Aristocracy | Disorder | Gentleman | Honour | Law | Masculinity | Mundanity | Religion
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Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… themselves above the conversation of others. Baxter warned that ‘many are led into solitude by their infirmities or vices’, noting that ‘popish vanity may seduce them ... [to] imagine, that they are serving God and entering into …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu, who frequently visited at Streatham, and who was vice versa visited by the Thrales at her home in Hill Street. 4 Nonetheless, Hester’s frequent pregnancies exacted a …
Bluestockings | Commerce | Friendship | Italy | Literature | Politics
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… and disguise themselves as they pleased: men dressed up as women and women as men, the rich could pretend to be poor and vice-versa. 3 . Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831), …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… his conviction that God had created man as a sociable animal: ‘We are fram'd for mutual Kindness, good Will and Service, and therefore our Blessed Saviour has been pleased to give us […] the Command of Loving one another’. 4 This … them, as well as expected what would please them’. 14 ‘Good Breeding’ required ‘a Regard to Decency’ and disdain of vice. 15 The world of Mr Spectator was, despite the inclusion of the country gentleman De Coverley, an overwhelmingly … the influence of the House of Lords) saw only occasional room for the mass of the people on whose labour and service polite society rested. The subscribers of the 1712-13 edition were drawn from the ranks of the aristocracy, …
Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women
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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
Clans | Gentleman | Masculinity | Rake | Violence
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… those in London. Such claims might appeal to some clients, but would surely deeply offend those suspicious of the vices they saw inherent in the theatre. 8 . Pennsylvania Gazette (January 1753). The Quaker fathers were not silent as …
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