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Civil tongues & polite letters in British America /
In urban areas from Boston to Charleston, the elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in a variety of private venues to communicate and interact. David Shields looks into the taverns, tea rooms, salons, coffee houses, card parties, clubs, and fraternities where these...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1: Overture
- The Promise of Civil Discourse
- Chapter 2: Belles Lettres and the Arenas of Metropolitan Conversation
- A Conversation in the Suburbs
- Politeness and Wit
- The Model of Belles Lettres
- Sociability
- Gentility and Taste
- The Spas and the Sexes
- The Profanations of Grub Street
- Chapter 3: Coffeehouse and Tavern
- Henry Brooke
- The Poet as Agent of Urbanity
- Tavern Talk Transfigured
- Beyond Politeness
- Chapter 4: Tea Tables and Salons
- Tea and Sympathy
- The Garden of Sensibility
- Chapter 5: Rites of Assembly
- At the Ball
- Card Games and the Muse
- The Sphinx's Challenge
- Crambo
- The Contest of Wit
- Chapter 6: The Clubs
- The Brotherhood of Fish
- The Practice of Good Fellowship
- Chapter 7: The College, the Press, and the Public
- Elegy and the College Cult of Memory
- The Religious Sublime
- The Polite Christian
- Famous Characters and the Defamer
- The Duplicities of Print
- Old Janus
- Chapter 8: Gaining Admission
- The Rapid Rise of Dr. Dale
- An Anatomy of Hospitality
- Chapter 9: Toward the Polite Republic.