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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Mason, John E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1935
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 17 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512804317; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512804317
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John E. Mason.

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.