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Beyond Metaphor

Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Joseph D. Bryan

of terms explaining how individuals “feel” the world around them and absorb sensory information. Through a brief analysis of the French metaphor “softness” ( la mollesse ) and of Adam Smith's impartial spectator in the third section, I will reveal a