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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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Swift Solutions: A Genteel and Ingenious Guide to Social Engineering
Written by Carkan Moil, a man of moderate spleen and a great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandvotery of Jonathan Swift, Swift Solutions is an homage to Jonathan Swift that offers original insights using macabre Swiftian solutions to many of todayÂ’s problems, including: abortion, aging, war, overpopulation, immigration, homophobia, sexism, racism, and world hunger..
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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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Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions: (for the Genteel and Commoner)
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Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam and the Irish Women's Movement
The first in-depth study of the lives and politics of two of the most interesting social radicals of their time. Quakers, Anna and Thomas Haslam campaigned for social reform in the late nineteenth century, and played a central role in the formation of an early Irish feminist agenda in the early twentieth century. Anna and Thomas Haslam were born in the decade before Victoria ascended to the throne, both into Quaker families. This book is both an exploration of their lives and a history of the first forty years of feminist activism in Ireland. Thomas, an example of a Victorian polymath, wrote on birth control as early as 1868 and, in the 1870s, on prostitution and on sexual morality. He published a journal on female suffrage in 1874 and continued to write on the subject until his death in 1917 at the age of 92. "Genteel Revolutionaries" traces the Haslams’ work for women’s suffrage from their founding of the Dublin Women’s Suffrage Association in 1876 to the granting of the franchise in 1918. It looks at the campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1870s, a campaign regarded at the time as disgraceful because “ladies” discussed prostitution and venereal disease, subjects they should have known nothing about. Anna was active in the movement for the education of women and was also instrumental in winning for women the right to stand as candidates in local elections. She was a member of the International Council of Women from the 1880s. "Genteel Revolutionaries" explores a world in which a coterie of like-minded people strove for reform in a law-abiding manner. It reveals an Ireland where people with religious and political differences worked together for a common cause and whose conservative demeanor belied their radical ideals. The first in-depth study of the lives and politics of two of the most interesting social radicals of their time. Quakers, Anna and Thomas Haslam campaigned for social reform in the late nineteenth century, and played a central role in the formation of an early Irish feminist agenda in the early twentieth century..
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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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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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