The Crisis of Courtesy

The Crisis of Courtesy

Author: Jacques Carré

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9789004100053

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"The Crisis of Courtesy" explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.