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100 1 $aShields, David S.,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88225519
245 10 $aCivil tongues & polite letters in British America /$cDavid S. Shields.
246 3 $aCivil tongues and polite letters in British America
260 $aChapel Hill :$bPublished for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axxxii, 348 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn urban areas from Boston to Charleston, the elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in a variety of private venues to communicate and interact. David Shields looks into the taverns, tea rooms, salons, coffee houses, card parties, clubs, and fraternities where these displays of civility took place.
520 8 $aHe argues that such spaces, formed outside the domain of the state, became key sites for elite discursive formation, for the articulation and enactment of the values of civility.
520 8 $aIn an important reinterpretation of early American literary history, he argues that the belles lettres generated for and within these institutions in fact represent a powerful colonial genre involving experimentation with manners and social identities.
520 8 $aBy examining the language and forms of various "texts" - including conversations, letters, privately circulated manuscripts, and other forms of expression - he reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.
650 0 $aEtiquette$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial interaction$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAssociations, institutions, etc.$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xDiscourse analysis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043521
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140528
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