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2016
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(2016): Special Issue: Case studies in historical politeness (ancient languages): Introduction. In: Journal of Politeness Research 12 (2), S. 149-153. DOI: 10.1515/pr-2016-0020
Abstract: The collection of papers included in this Special Issue represents the first contribution of its kind to the study of politeness, bringing together studies from across many different historical disciplines to collectively assess and challenge the concept of ‘politeness’ in the ancient world. Here, the authors of the papers experiment with modern politeness frameworks, assessing the different ways in which historical politeness can be understood and pursued. What becomes clear in these studies is that the modern concept of ‘politeness’ needs to be better defined when it is applied to the ancient world, especially if the culture or language system under study has no direct terminology or understanding of ‘politeness’ as it is defined today.
2014
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(2014): The gentlemen's book of etiquette and manual of politeness. London: Hesperus Classics
Abstract: From advice on how to treat ladies, how to behave at a party, and rules for traveling abroad, this handy 19th-century guidebook will provide entertaining nuggets of wisdom. Ever wondered what to do in polite society if you find an insect in your food? Or how a gentleman should ask a lady to dance? And what on earth is the etiquette for smoking cigars? First published in 1860, this classic guide to gentlemanly behavior is a veritable mine of information and indispensable advice for aspiring gentlemen. No matter if a man finds himself at home, in the street, or in a place of amusement, he has but to leaf through this book to learn how best to behave, and indeed how not to behave. And if he can find time between his numerous invitations to balls and hunting parties, he could benefit from a perusal of the sections on gentlemanly deportment and conversational technique. Not forgetting, of course, the all-important advice on how to treat ladies, surely an integral part of any true gentleman's training.
Keywords: Etiquette for men, Gestik/Mimik, Good manners, Historiographie, History of manners, Kultur, manners, REFERENCE, Regelwerke, Rollen, Selbstdisziplin/-kontrolle, Situationsbedingter Kontext, Soziale Angemessenheit, Soziale Klasse / Schicht, Sozialer Raum / Kultureller Kontext, Sprachgebrauch, Umgangsformen, Werte -
(2014): Signore e signori d'Italia. Una storia delle buone maniere. In: Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19 (5), S. 686-688. DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2014.962264
Abstract: “A tavola signori si diventa. Fingere di essere lì per fini diversi da quelli del nutrirsi” I galatei sono lo specchio di come una società vorrebbe essere. Sono trattati di buone maniere che mostrano per lo più rigidità negli schemi e nelle regole. Nella struttura seguono il ciclo di vita, dal battesimo al funerale, distinguono tra sfera pubblica e privata, prestano attenzione soprattutto ai momenti di interazione tra i diversi attori sociali, prescrivono sempre norme dettagliate sul corpo, sulla conversazione, sul modo di comportarsi in pubblico e in privato, sull’organizzazione dello spazio. I protagonisti ricorrenti sono i medesimi, il vero signore, la vera signora, la signorina. Possono mutare i contesti, aggiungersi personaggi nuovi, ma norme e modelli paiono congelati nel tempo. In Italia si sono succedute tuttavia varie fasi per questi manuali: dall’Unità d’Italia al fascismo è l’epoca in cui si introducono tutti i temi canonici delle buone maniere, per una borghesia in ascesa; nell’epoca fascista il regime cerca di apparire quale artefice di un grande rinnovamento degli stili di vita; nel secondo dopoguerra e negli anni sessanta con il boom economico la società di massa influenza anche le norme di comportamento; nel passaggio dagli anni settanta agli ottanta i galatei mutano in manuali di sopravvivenza, in “contro galatei”; infine ai giorni nostri ci si domanda se essi esistano ancora, quale forma assumano, che ruolo abbiano.
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(2014): The Puffery and Practicality of Etiquette Books. A New Take on Victorian Information Culture. In: Library Trends 62 (3), S. 663-680. DOI: 10.1353/lib.2014.0011
2013
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(2013): McGahern, Austen, and the Aesthetics of Good Manners. In: Essays in Criticism 63 (2), S. 203-222. DOI: 10.1093/escrit/cgt007
Abstract: "Now her only interruptions were rare telephone calls – and when her reading brought her face to face with some affection or sharp memory. ‘She had done more than she wanted to, less than she ought.’ She found herself repeating the sentence long after she had closed the book, seeing elements of her own life and people she knew reflected in it, elements of that life seen and given a moral sweetness that was close to smiling." MRS WALDRON in ‘Creatures of the Earth’ is quoting – misquoting, in fact – from chapter 20 of Jane Austen's Emma. Austen was one of the authors whom John McGahern most admired. He had been reading and rereading her novels from an early age,2 and they remained an important part of his literary imagination until the very end of his life. (McGahern brought only one book with him during his final stay in the Mater Hospital in Dublin, where he died in late March 2006, and that book was Mansfield Park.3) Yet the two writers are rarely connected in the minds of his readers, and the possibility that he may have assimilated aspects of her work in writing his own novels and stories has not been pursued in a systematic way by critics.
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(2013): Samuel R. Wells's How to behave. The classic pocket manual of good manners & model behavior. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media
Abstract: A modern guide to the timeless rules of good behavior In the years since its publication in the late nineteenth century, How to Behave has taught thousands of men and women how to build a strong, noble character and demonstrate model behavior in any situation. Now, in this updated edition of Samuel R. Wells's classic work, you, too, can manifest the traits and manners characteristic of a simpler era. At the heart of Wells's timeless tips, you'll find that a true lady or gentleman must always have a sincere regard for others, good taste, and an excellent sense of self-command.
2009
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(2009): Hume and the Question of Good Manners. In: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics 46 (1), S. 29-48
Abstract: The question of manners is important in David Hume's examination of human nature primarily because of the weight he assigns to the so-called 'social virtues'. Man is, for Hume, a being that naturally tends to form societies, and the study of human nature is, after all, the study of human sociability, which finds its expression in manners. The present paper shows Hume as a participant in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century discussion about the concept of politeness, a concept which oscillated between the domain of manners and morals and the domain of art. The examination of Hume's ideal of polite manners illustrates the way his classicist taste pervaded the appreciation both of works of art and of social comportment.
2008
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(2008): A handbook on good manners for children. De civilitate morum puerilium. London: Preface
Abstract: The first treatise in Western Europe on the moral and practical education of children was published in 1530 by an author who was outraged at the uncouth and undisciplined youth of his time. It is surprisingly relevant today!
2006
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(2006): Jane Austen's guide to good manners. Compliments, charades & horrible blunders. New York: Bloomsbury
Abstract: Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for ""literary comment," Jane loved everything about it, except its utter disregard for the manners of the day. The resulting and tender correspondence between the two serves as the foundation for this instructional book. Etiquette and social behavior of the early 1800s come to life in lovely chapters teaching one on how to pay and return formal "calls," how to properly refuse a proposal of marriage, who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball, and what to wear for a morning walk. Jane Austen used these daily customs and niceties to brilliantly illuminate the cloistered world of high society women in her timeless novels. Now with this delightful handbook of correct social behavior, readers will learn just why Mrs. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice couldn't call alone on her new, rich, bachelor neighbor and had to force the reluctant Mr. Bennet to do so...even as he uttered "Tis an etiquette I despise." An indispensable gift for any Austen fan, this beautiful book will prove irresistible to anyone wishing to go back in time to the atmosphere of their favorite Austen novels. Henrietta Webb is the co-creator of Bad Hair. Josephine Ross has written a number of books including, most recently, Jane Austen: A Companion, published in England by Austen's original publisher John Murray.
1997
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(1997): La pédagogie de la politesse dans l'école laïque de la Troisième République. In: Romantisme 27 (96), S. 41-49. DOI: 10.3406/roman.1997.3205
Abstract: Français: Les responsables de l'école républicaine de la Troisième République accordent une place importante à l'enseignement de la politesse. Il en est question dans les directives issues du ministère de l'Instruction publique, dans les livres de conseils destinés aux enseignants, dans les rapports d'inspecteurs et d'enseignants, dans les conférences pédagogiques et dans les livres scolaires. En regardant de plus près ces écrits, on peut voir que le discours de l'école républicaine réussit à récupérer l'art de la politesse développé sous l'Ancien Régime tout en embrassant les idéaux égalitaires, républicains et nationalistes de la Troisième République. English: The teaching of politesse occupies an important place in the pedagogy and curriculum of the public primary school during the Third Republic. It is discussed in directives of the Ministry of Public Instruction, in advice books for teachers, in inspector's reports, in lectures on pedagogy and in school texts. A close look at some of these writings shows that the discourse circulating in the public primary school succeeds in recuperating the art of politesse developed during the Old Regime while affirming the egalitarian, republican and nationalist ideals of the Third Republic.
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(1997): Autour de la notion de manuel. In: Romantisme 27 (96), S. 17-29. DOI: 10.3406/roman.1997.3203
Abstract: Englischer Titel laut WoS: Good manners and politeness manuals from the Middle Ages to the present Français L'article étudie l'apparition et la signification du mot manuel dans la bibliographie française des ouvrages consacrés à la politesse et au savoir-vivre du Moyen Age à nos jours. La lutte « arme au poing » est au cœur de la définition du mot, du Manuel d'Epictète au Poignard du soldat chrétien d'Erasme. Avant le début du XIXe siècle, le mot apparaît peu, mais, dès 1820, il correspond à un ouvrage pratique, à la portée de tous, laïcisé, relevant d'un domaine précis. Cette importance correspond aux nouvelles exigences sociales : l'homme du monde est un nouveau militant qui lutte, arme au poing, pour être reconnu par les autres et accepté dans le monde. English: This paper aims to define when the word manuel first appeared, what it means in the bibliography of French literature primarily concerned with politness and good manners, from the Middle Ages to this day. The original notion is that of a fight with an armed hand, a widespread notion from Epictetus's Manuel to Erasmus's the Christian fighter's dagger. There is little mention of the word until the early 19th-century. But as early as 1820, it applies to a volume meant for practical usage, easily readable, no longer serving religious purposes and dealing with a specific field of interest. An important function born of society's new requirements. To day 's, new man of action is armed with a manuel and he fights to gain acceptance and recognition from his fellow creatures.
1985
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(1985): Horace on good manners. In: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 31, S. 33-46. DOI: 10.1017/S0068673500004740
Abstract: This essay aims to discover and to illustrate one of the leading themes of Horace's first book of Epistles. This theme, good manners, despite its importance, is nonetheless neglected, or at any rate huddled up within the general praise of Horace's tact. Tact there certainly is, and we shall watch it in operation. But the poet would be setting aside that uerecundia which his patron praised (Epist. 1.7.37) if he were merely blowing his own trumpet. The display of tact and good manners perhaps serves other ends, and the suggestion of reasons for this choice of theme will form the substance of my remarks. Some preparation of the ground is necessary. This essay completes an argument begun in an article entitled ‘Horace's Epistles I and philosophy’ which will appear in the American Journal of Philology for 1985. In order that this essay may be fairly complete in itself it will be useful to set out very briefly the considerations which induced me to look more closely at good manners. To do this most compendiously, I shall offer some quotations from E. C. Wickham's English commentary on the first epistle and explain why they appear unsatisfactory. Wickham is not chosen as a whipping-boy for any other reason than that he neatly expresses a common view; in all respects he is a serious and helpful student of the poems.
1966
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(1966): The Polite Americans. A Wide-Angle View of Our More Or Less Good Manners Over 300 Years. In: The Journal of American History 53 (3). DOI: 10.2307/1887576
Abstract: [book review]
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(1966): The Polite Americans. A Wide-Angle View of Our More or Less Good Manners Over 300 Years. In: The American Historical Review 72 (1). DOI: 10.2307/1848346
Abstract: [book review]
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