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

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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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