Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

ISBN-13: 9780807846568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 382 str.

David S. Shields

Opis

In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts'--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.