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1 online resource (xxxii, 348 pages) : illustrations. |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 displays of civility took place. He argues that such spaces, formed outside the domain of the state, became key sites for elite discursive formation, for the articulation and enactment of the values of civility. In an important reinterpretation of early American literary history, he argues that the belles lettres generated for and within these institutions in fact represent a powerful colonial genre involving experimentation with manners and social identities. By examining the language and forms of various "texts"--Including conversations, letters, privately circulated manuscripts, and other forms of expression - he reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Etiquette -- United States -- History.
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Etiquette. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Social interaction -- United States -- History.
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Social interaction. |
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States -- History.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History.
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Associations, institutions, etc. |
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English language -- United States -- Discourse analysis.
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Literature and society. |
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English language. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1775 |
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Discourse analysis. |
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HISTORY -- Social History. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Etiquette. |
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Sociale interactie. |
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Etiquette -- United States -- History. |
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Social interaction -- United States -- History. |
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States -- History. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Colonial Period, 1600-1775. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Civil tongues and polite letters in British America |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Shields, David S. Civil tongues & polite letters in British America. Chapel Hill, NC : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, ©1997 (DLC) 96037377 (OCoLC)35911827 |
| ISBN |
9781469600550 (electronic book) |
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1469600552 (electronic book) |
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0807823511 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807823514 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807846562 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807846568 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
