English 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eliza Haywood, Ghostwriter, The Female Spectator
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This came out of some shifts in social and cultural shifts. Before the court determined fashions and cultural tastes. The centre thus moved outwards into the public sphere. Significance is thus placed on coffee-houses, taverns, and the theatre. Instead of this limited circle of aristocrats, there was thus other kinds of writers, and the production of literature became associated with public meeting spaces. They were there to talk politics, literature, and exchange ideas. They were more frequented by men, and thus, it was a male culture. It was an interesting shift from the tavern; there was thus an emphasis on sober conversation. There was thus print culture being connected to the coffee-houses; they circled within the coffee-houses. In some ways it was a place for an informal library. There was also the printed works emerging out of these conversations.
