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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jacques Carré -- INTRODUCTION / Jacques Carré -- THE TRADITION OF DELLA CASA'S GALATEO IN ENGLISH / John R. Woodhouse -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND GENDER DECORUM: RENAISSANCE COURTESY / Michael Steppat -- STANDARDIZATION vs. GENRE: CONDUCT-BOOKS AND ENGLISH CHAP-LITERATURE / Gilles Duval -- HOGARTH'S INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS: SUBVERSIVE LESSONS ON CONDUCT / Peter Wagner -- THE COURTESY-BOOK AND THE PHRASE-BOOK IN MODERN EUROPE / Niels Haastrup -- MAXIMS OF CONDUCT INTO LITERATURE: JONATHAN SWIFT AND POLITE CONVERSATION / Dieter A. Berger -- FIELDING'S ESSAY ON CONVERSATION: A COURTESY GUIDE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS? / Tim McLoughlin -- LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS AS CONDUCT-BOOKS / Georges Lamoine -- THE MAN OF TASTE AS SOCIAL MODEL, OR, 'SENSE AND SENSIBILITY' / Rémy G. Saisselin -- THE GENTLEMAN AS GARDENER: POPE, SHENSTONE, MASON / Michel Baridon -- COURTLY MANNERS IN A VICTORIAN HOME: PATMORE'S THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE / Maurice Montabrut -- THE LADY AND THE POOR MAN; OR, THE PHILANTHROPISTS'S ETIQUETTE / Jacques Carré -- ETIQUETTE AND MARRIAGE AT THE TURN OF THE XXth CENTURY: ADVICE ON CHOOSING ONE'S PARTNER / Kathleen Dejardin -- A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONDUCT-BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN (1500-1993) / Alain Montandon and Jacques Carré -- NOTE ON THE CONTRIBUTORS / Jacques Carré -- NAME INDEX / Jacques Carré -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / Jacques Carré -- Plates I-XVII / Jacques Carré.