Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… Image Thursday, March 1, 1711. The first issue of The Spectator, 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public … either case, the attractiveness of politeness grew out of contemporary developments in urban living, class aspiration, print culture and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Keywords Civility Conversation … Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). These changes, reinforced by others such as the expansion of print culture and indeed of all manner of consumer items as well as the new political conditions of the post-1688 polity, …
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