Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
| By: | David S. Shields |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780807823514 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780807838341 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts'--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.