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… surrounding it. 7 Peter Motteux's ‘ Poem upon Tea ‘ (1712) envisions a community of classical gods and goddesses, a kind of Olympic tea-table, where Gods are refreshed by this new ‘nectar’, whose properties are enumerated. 8 The British … for polite and refined domestic sociability, a place for the immediate circle of the family, who participated in the drinking of tea. It could also be at the centre of middle-class families' social entertaining in their home, involving a … and Rum (London: 1791), reprinted in Timothy Morton (ed.), Radical Food: The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking 1790-1820, vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 2004), p. 33-40, p. 34, 35. For the representation of bodies, see Sussman, p. …
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