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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more … through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. … Consumer culture … Tea … Tea-table … Domesticity … Femininity … Slave trade … Boycott … Sugar …

Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]

… Whig reformist agenda, which dictated new forms of sociability along gender lines. They projected an ideal of reasonable femininity which largely restricted female sociability to the domestic sphere. This model proved so hegemonic that it … such as tea or coffee drinking. Taking tea was a genteel form of sociability which became increasingly associated with femininity as the eighteenth-century unfolded. Its prestige was derived from the material cost and exoticism of tea and … believed to be their respective and complementary nature. Masculinity was defined as strong, learned and public while femininity was largely characterised as beautiful, fragile, sensitive and naturally caring. Combined with natural good …

Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]

… a widespread concern with its social significance, and particularly, its influence and role in the conceptualisation of femininity, morality, and sociability. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (London: J. … women, physically, mentally, and socially, and these changes presented several concerns. When combined with thoughts on femininity, masculinity, social conduct, patriarchal hierarchy, and fears of female superiority, the traditional concepts … beauty as an embodiment of the soul, became confounded. Robert Jones has argued that the new thoughts on sociability and femininity were embodied by the ‘spectacle of a virtuous woman’. 5  Likewise, Morag Martin has suggested that ‘the …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… 4 . James Thomson, The Seasons (London, 1730), p. 35. A combination of harder and faster chases and changing notions of femininity caused ever more commentators to declare that female participation was inappropriate.  The celebrated hunter …

Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… Modern Britain (New Haven: Yale UP, 2014). 13 . Ingrid H. Tague, Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760 (Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002). 14 . Betty Rizzo, Companions without Vows: …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… both to his homosocial networks and his literary quarrels might be intended, in part, to remedy such associations with femininity. The same might also be said of the various misogynistic sentiments that emerge throughout his oeuvre. Pope …