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Gentlefolk in the Making : Studies in the History of English Courtesy Literature and Related Topics from 1531 to 1774 /

Mason, John E.

Gentlefolk in the Making : Studies in the History of English Courtesy Literature and Related Topics from 1531 to 1774 / John E. Mason. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (416 p.) : 17 illus.

Frontmatter -- TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAP.I Types and Tendencies in Courtesy Literature before 1531 -- CHAP. II From The Governour of Sir Thomas Elyot to the Basilikon Doron of King James I -- CHAP. III Parental Advice in the Age of the Stuarts -- CHAP. IV Parental Advice from Penn to Chesterfield -- CHAP. V Some Early Stuart Treatises on Polite Conduct -- CHAP. VI Polite Conduct from Quarles to Penton -- CHAP. VII Polite Conduct and Education from Locke to Sheridan -- CHAP. VIII Seventeenth-Century Treatises on Policy -- CHAP. IX Treatises on Civility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centurie -- CHAP. X Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INDEX

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A detailed compilation of books on polite conduct from Elyot's The Governour to Chesterfield's Letters, with generous "ations from the more important ones.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781512804300 9781512804317

10.9783/9781512804317 doi


Courtesy books--History.--England
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Etiquette--History.--England
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.

BJ1547

170.942