Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Abstract In the eighteenth century, the term ‘politeness’ became a powerful, if … items as well as the new political conditions of the post-1688 polity, conduced to the spread of the idea of ‘the public’. 6 The rise of ‘the public’ put pressure on traditional elitist cognitive ideals: learning of all sorts, it was … Century (London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997). This is not to deny that the eighteenth-century British public sphere was full of contestation though, as many asserted at the time, Britain was more polite, in every way, than it had …
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