Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British AmericaUNC Press Books, 1997 - 348 Seiten 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 |
Inhalt
Prologue | 1 |
Overture The Promise of Civil Discourse | 6 |
Belles Lettres and the Arenas of Metropolitan Conversation | 11 |
A Conversation in the Suburbs | 22 |
Politeness and Wit | 26 |
The Model of Belles Lettres | 28 |
Sociability | 31 |
Gentility and Taste | 37 |
The Sphinxs Challenge | 161 |
Crambo | 165 |
The Contest of Wit | 168 |
The Clubs | 175 |
The Brotherhood of Fish | 189 |
The Practice of Good Fellowship | 198 |
The College the Press and the Public | 209 |
Elegy and the College Cult of Memory | 219 |
The Spas and the Sexes | 40 |
The Profanations of Grub Street | 46 |
Coffeehouse and Tavern | 55 |
The Poet as Agent of Urbanity | 65 |
Tavern Talk Transfigured | 79 |
Beyond Politeness | 88 |
Tea Tables and Salons | 99 |
Tea and Sympathy | 104 |
The Garden of Sensibility | 126 |
Rites of Assembly | 141 |
At the Ball | 145 |
Card Games and the Muse | 158 |
The Religious Sublime | 226 |
The Polite Christian | 236 |
Famous Characters and the Defamer | 243 |
The Duplicities of Print | 262 |
Old Janus | 266 |
Gaining Admission | 275 |
The Rapid Rise of Dr Dale | 277 |
An Anatomy of Hospitality | 301 |
Toward the Polite Republic | 308 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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