… figures of early eighteenth-century sociability and politeness. Perhaps best known for his contributions to periodical literature, Steele achieved fame for the style and content of his writing, which had a long legacy during the eighteenth … a highly partisan polemicist and had a relatively circumscribed view of who constituted the ‘people’. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Morality Periodicals Politeness Print culture Politics Slavery Theatre Wit Women … figures of early eighteenth-century sociability and politeness. Perhaps best known for his contributions to periodical literature, Steele achieved fame for the style and content of his writing, which had a long legacy during the eighteenth …
… œconomiques, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1767), vol. 1, p. 9. Use of the term ‘reciprocity’ skyrocketed in the literature surrounding the flurry of commercial negotiations during the 1770s and 1780s, when securing ‘free trade’ …