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… his vision for his new periodical, The Spectator . In his desire to entertain and instruct, he sought to bring men and women out of closets ‘to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses’. 1 Like many of his … society. The eighteenth century was a culture built on the ideals of company, association, and politeness, where men and women were expected to maintain a careful balance between engagement and seclusion in their everyday lives. How much time … the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 225. 9 . Karen Lipsedge, ‘‘Enter into thy Closet’: Women, Closet Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel’, in John Styles and Amanda Vickery (eds.), Gender, Taste …
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