Common courtesy in eighteenth-century English literature
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Common courtesy in eighteenth-century English literature
University of Delaware Press, c1997
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Bibliography: p. 193-196
Includes index
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The intersection in major works of the eighteenth century between courtesy and sense are described in this book. The representation of conversational courtesy, which allowed an improvement of opinion -- described as "common sense" by that age -- is analyzed in works by Berkeley, Pope, Sterne, Johnson, and Boswell, showing in each case how a demanding subject matter was submitted to an insouciant social scrutiny and thus made more fully and more widely understood.
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