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… and educate. Periodical essayists promoted a 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 … & Artistic genres Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Commerce Correspondence Femininity Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press … prevailed in the first half of the eighteenth century, staged and gave birth to new forms of mixed sociability based on gender balance and politeness. Essay periodicals, which could be dailies like The Spectator (1711-1712/1714) or The …
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