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… itself shows the intimate relationship the Spectator ’s authors wished to establish between reading such ephemeral prints and shaping people’s social behaviours. Reading periodicals was conceived as an essentially collective activity. … their value from the luxurious material objects which had occasioned them, – the tea sets – to cheap yet enlightening prints 3 which would turn each tea /coffee table assembly into exclusive circles reminiscent of the seventeenth-century … by untranslated Latin and Greek mottos, which created a sense of belonging to a reading community sharing the same culture. At the same time, since the mottos offered a further comment on the essays’ topics, they introduced several …
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