Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… of human egoism. In 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 Mots-clés … servants), the ideal had no resonance with the majority of the labouring population. Indeed, even among the polite classes, the performance of politeness could be contingent on place and occasion. 8 7 . For instance, George Whitefield’s … began to displace the generalist and gentlemanly norm of intellectual culture. 9 . Marjorie Morgan, Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994). 10 . Philip Carter, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, …
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