SOURCE: “‘As Sacred as Friendship, as Pleasurable as Love’: Father-Son Relations in the Tatler and Spectator,” in History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, The University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 14-38.
In this essay, Maurer explores how early periodicals depicted and defined gender roles, family dynamics, and other social and domestic values.
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