Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

Author/Contributor(s):	Shields, David S
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Date:	05/26/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.