Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… to dance', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D12835, 1804. Résumé The historiography suggests a growing culture of polite sociability across the course of the eighteenth century. One dimension of this ‘politeness’ is the extent to which men came to respect and pay due deference to conventions of physical etiquette that …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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