Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America /

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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...

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Main Author: Shields, David S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Associations > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Savoir-vivre > États-Unis > Histoire > 1500-1800.
Formules de politesse > États-Unis > Histoire > 1500-1800.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Associations, institutions, etc. > United States > History.
Social interaction > United States > History.
Etiquette > United States > History.
Sociale interactie.
Etiquette.
Social interaction.
Manners and customs.
Literature and society.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Associations, institutions, etc.
HISTORY > Social History.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Analyse du discours.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Associations > États-Unis > Histoire.
Interaction sociale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Savoir-vivre > États-Unis > Histoire.
English language > United States > Discourse analysis.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 18e siecle.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > 1600-1775.
United States > Social life and customs > Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
United States.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1775.
United States > Social life and customs > To 1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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