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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Contents
A note on the text
1. The stars’ tennis balls: or, a short introduction from an unusual angle
2. ‘I’ma get medieval on yo ass’: manners in the age of chivalry
3. Lubricants and filters: ‘a kind of lesser morality’
4. Godspeed, babe: or, meetings and greetings
5. Of courtiers and codpieces: fashioning Renaissance identity
6. But who was the Renaissance man?
7. Table manners: or, how to eat a cobra’s heart
8. The Clothes Show: ‘When in doubt, opt for navy’
9. Mr Sex
10. Not Mr Sex: when ‘coffee’ doesn’t mean coffee
11. The elephant and the bad baby: the everyday language of manners
12. Spectators and stratagems: the polite, commercial eighteenth century
13. Lord Chesterfield and the invention of etiquette
14. Letters and social change: Jane Austen and Fanny Burney
15. The Englishness of English manners
16. Island Man and his discontents: ‘They do things differently there’
17. Fanny Trollope and the domestic manners of Americans
18. ‘You’re the most important person!’: the trouble with children
19. What were Victorian values?
20. Curb your enthusiasm: new ways for new times
21. Creative hubs and ‘extreme phenomena’: negotiating the modern city
22. Location, location, location: the rules of place
23. A fluid world: or, ‘Are you suggesting that I should call you Eric?’
24. Technology and the revenge effect
25. ‘Are we there yet?’: manners now
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Henry Hitchings
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