Courtesy Books; Model Letters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments VIII
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1: Lower-Class English, 1660—1800
6. Texts 13
7. Contexts 36
8. Prescriptive Grammars 45
9. Chapter 2: Courtly-Genteel Prose
10. The Language of Diplomacy and Petition 73
11. Love and Courtship 78
12. Letters of High Friendship 82
13. Courtesy Books; Model Letters 84
14. Chivalric Romance 88
15. Prayer 91
16. The Ancestry of Courtly-Genteel Prose 93
17. Summary 98
18. Chapter 3: Applications
19. Hawkesworth's Revisions (1773) of Captain Cook (1770) 105
20. Evelina 114
21. Tom Jones and Clarissa 118
22. Humphry Clinker 130
23. Bows and Curtsies: Courtly Letters 137
24. Bibliography 149
25. Index 163