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 … economic and political debates. In his famous essay on the Royal Exchange in the Spectator n° 69, dated 19 May 1711, Addison describes the fictional Mr Spectator’s delight in mixing with Oriental merchants (Armenians, Jews, and so forth) … often the Product of a hundred Climates. The Muff and the Fan come together from the different Ends of the Earth. 6 From Addison’s words it is clear that the benefits of commerce can be found in the great variety of commodities, both …
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