Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… criteria of polite social interaction were applied to the communication of learning: the ease, simplicity, elegance and pleasure of polite conversation became normative for a wide range of oral and printed forms. 6 . John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997). This … on 05/19/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/politeness.html Further Reading Berg, Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) . Berry, Helen, ‘ Rethinking Politeness in …
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