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… Literary & 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 … (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. Women, who were barred access to coffeehouses, could therefore read them at home. Their literacy and purchasing power … the Whig journals’ prescriptive agenda tended to frame sociability along gender lines. In The Spectator , men’s and women’s sociabilities were dictated by what was believed to be their respective and complementary nature. Masculinity was …
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