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Shields, David S., 1951-

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

Language: eng

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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

Extent: xxxii, 348 pages

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

Isbn: 9780807823514

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Label: Civil tongues & polite letters in British America

Title: Civil tongues & polite letters in British America

Statement of responsibility: David S. Shields

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Shields, David S., 1951-

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History

Language: eng

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

Cataloging source: DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1951-

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Shields, David S.

Dewey number: 306/.0973

Government publication: government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations: illustrations

Index: index present

LC call number: E162

LC item number: .S555 1997

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

http://library.link/vocab/subjectName

Etiquette
Social interaction
Associations, institutions, etc.
Literature and society
English language
United States
Etiquette
Sociale interactie
Savoir-vivre
Interaction sociale
Associations
Littérature et société
Anglais (Langue)
Formules de politesse
Savoir-vivre
Littérature et société
Associations

Label: Civil tongues & polite letters in British America, David S. Shields

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Civil tongues & polite letters in British America

Publication

Chapel Hill, NC, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, ©1997

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: volume

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Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

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

Control code: 35911827

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xxxii, 348 pages

Isbn: 9780807823514

Isbn Type: (cloth : alk. paper)

Lccn: 96037377

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other physical details: illustrations

System control number: (OCoLC)35911827

Label: Civil tongues & polite letters in British America, David S. Shields

Publication

Chapel Hill, NC, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, ©1997

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

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

Control code: 35911827

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xxxii, 348 pages

Isbn: 9780807823514

Isbn Type: (cloth : alk. paper)

Lccn: 96037377

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other physical details: illustrations

System control number: (OCoLC)35911827

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