Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. TO THE READER IX
3. CONTENTS XIII
4. ILLUSTRATIONS XV
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. CHAP.I Types and Tendencies in Courtesy Literature before 1531 4
7. CHAP. II From The Governour of Sir Thomas Elyot to the Basilikon Doron of King James I 23
8. CHAP. III Parental Advice in the Age of the Stuarts 58
9. CHAP. IV Parental Advice from Penn to Chesterfield 88
10. CHAP. V Some Early Stuart Treatises on Polite Conduct 113
11. CHAP. VI Polite Conduct from Quarles to Penton 144
12. CHAP. VII Polite Conduct and Education from Locke to Sheridan 175
13. CHAP. VIII Seventeenth-Century Treatises on Policy 220
14. CHAP. IX Treatises on Civility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centurie 253
15. CHAP. X Conclusion 291
16. NOTES 300
17. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE 361
18. INDEX 377