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The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays by George Santayana
George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great philosopher and writer coined the phrase “genteel tradition,” introducing it to a California audience in 1911. The phrase caught fire, giving a name to the culture of the republic. Santayana’s address appears in this collection of influential essays about the country he lived in from 1872 to 1912. Because he remained European in spirit, the Spaniard brought a sharp detachment to his observations. He points out the American split between thought and action, theory and practice, the traditional and the modern, the arts and business, the high-brow and the popular. He also examines the excessive moralism in national life, which baffles Europeans. These nine essays touch on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane. .
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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
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..
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The Reduced History of Tennis: The Story of the Genteel Racket and Ball Game Squeezed into 100 Smashes and Lobs (Reduced History)
No one is safe in this top-spinning compilation of sports commentary and wacky reports Readers will delight in the ridiculous remembrances of the gentlemen and the players, the ladies and the ball-boys, the coaches and the gurus, and the umpires and the line judges that have graced and disgraced the quintessential game of high summer. The clean aces, racket abuse, net cords, strawberries and cream, the on-court tantrums, and the little white dresses that got the crowd oohing and ahhing in the fruity manner of Dan Maskell are amusingly recalled. .
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Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
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Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions: (for the Genteel and Commoner)
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Miscellanies: Prose and Verse: Volume 7. A Little Dinner at Timmins\'s. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy. The Fitz-Boodle Papers. A Shabby Genteel Story
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The Rudiments of Genteel Behavior
his book provides delightful text and images explaining deportment in 1737. The text is remarkably direct, precise, and informative Exactly how to doff one’s hat, "retire gracefully from a room," and execute a curtsey are explained both in theory and practice. This book of manners is fascinating for art historians and social historians, actors and dancers. It provides a key to the interpretation of gesture and posture in Rococo painting. All students of the Golden Age of Elegance will find many hidden niceties revealed in this book..
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Mary Cassatt: The Life and Art of a Genteel Rebel (Girls Explore, Reach for the Stars)
Mary Cassatt always wanted to be an artist. But to reach her goal, she had to overcome many barriers. At the time Mary lived, people frowned on girls from wealthy families having a career. Her parents did not want her living the "odd" life they thought artists lived. Few art schools even accepted girls and women as students. And the "art world" held one idea of what paintings should be but Mary had a different idea. After much travel, study, and hard work, she won over her parents and the critics. Today Mary Cassatt's "impressionist" paintings hang in the best museums and collections throughout the world. She helped change attitudes that for so long kept women from their dreams. She even played a part in winning for women the right to vote. This book is written for 8 and up readers. There are over 20 color pictures of her paintings for you to enjoy..
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