MRP: Civility and politeness

Civility and politeness

General

Bryson, Anna, From Courtesy to Civility. Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1998)
Burke, Peter, ‘A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe’, and J. Barry, ‘Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: the Meanings of Urban Freedom’, both in Burke, Brian
Carter, Philip, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 (2001)
Harrison and P. Slack (eds.), Civil Histories. Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford 2000)

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Coffee Houses & manners

Cowan, Brian, ‘Mr Spectator and the Coffee House Public Sphere’, Eighteenth Century Studies 37 (2004), 345-366 - available on line
Klein, Lawrence, 'Coffee-house Civility, 1660-1714: An Aspect of Post-Courtly Culture in England,' Huntington Library Quarterly, 59 (1997), 30-51

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