Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… aspiration, print culture and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Mots-clés Civility Conversation Consumption Periodicals Politeness was a key word in eighteenth-century Britain, and its meanings were … freedom and discipline, ease and decorum. Much discussion of politeness focussed, in particular, on the management of conversation in a way that would be pleasurable and productive. 5 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture … 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 …
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