The Crisis of courtesy : : studies in the conduct-book in Britain, 1600-1900 / / edited by Jacques Carré.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 51
• TeilnehmendeR: Carré, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; INTRODUCTION /; THE TRADITION OF DELLA CASA'S GALATEO IN ENGLISH /; SOCIAL CHANGE AND GENDER DECORUM: RENAISSANCE COURTESY /; STANDARDIZATION vs. GENRE: CONDUCT-BOOKS AND ENGLISH CHAP-LITERATURE /; HOGARTH'S INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS: SUBVERSIVE LESSONS ON CONDUCT /; THE COURTESY-BOOK AND THE PHRASE-BOOK IN MODERN EUROPE /; MAXIMS OF CONDUCT INTO LITERATURE: JONATHAN SWIFT AND POLITE CONVERSATION /; FIELDING'S ESSAY ON CONVERSATION: A COURTESY GUIDE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS? /; LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS AS CONDUCT-BOOKS /; THE MAN OF TASTE AS SOCIAL MODEL, OR, 'SENSE AND SENSIBILITY' /; THE GENTLEMAN AS GARDENER: POPE, SHENSTONE, MASON /; COURTLY MANNERS IN A VICTORIAN HOME: PATMORE'S THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE /; THE LADY AND THE POOR MAN; OR, THE PHILANTHROPISTS'S ETIQUETTE /; ETIQUETTE AND MARRIAGE AT THE TURN OF THE XXth CENTURY: ADVICE ON CHOOSING ONE'S PARTNER /; A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONDUCT-BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN (1500-1993) /; NOTE ON THE CONTRIBUTORS /; NAME INDEX /; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS /; Plates I-XVII /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004247025
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jacques Carré.

The Crisis of Courtesy examines the apparent decline of the courtesy-book in Britain after the 16th century and suggests that the matter of courtesy was disseminated into a broad range of literary genres such as poetry, the essay and the novel. The authors highlight the pervasive interest in conduct evinced in Georgian and Victorian literature. They show how it became an important source of inspiration for middle-class writers and artists who were eager to help their readers adapt to a changing society, but preferred to write in a humorous, satirical or imaginative vein rather than in a prescriptive manner. The book will be useful to the literary historian, as some major Augustan works such as those of Swift, Fielding and Hogarth are analysed from a new perspective.