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This book is a groundbreaking study of etiquette in the nineteenth century when the success of etiquette books reached unprecedented heights in Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. It positions etiquette as a fully-fledged theoretical concept within the fields of politeness studies and historical pragmatics. After tracing the origin of etiquette back to Spanish court protocol, the analysis takes a novel approach to key aspects of etiquette: its highly coercive and intricate scripts; the liminal rituals of social gatekeeping; the fear for blunders; the obsession with precedence. Interrogating the complex relationship between historical etiquette and adjacent notions of politeness, conduct, morality, convention, and ritual, the study prompts questions on gender stereotyping and class privilege surrounding the present-day etiquette revival. Through adopting a unique comparative approach and a corpus-based methodology this study seeks to revitalise our understandings of etiquette. This book will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and pragmatics, as well as those in neighbouring fields such as literary criticism, gender studies and family life, domestic and urban spaces. Annick Paternoster is a Lecturer at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. She lectures Rhetoric and Stylistics at the Istituto di studi italiani, where she pursues an interdisciplinary research agenda based on historical pragmatics, the pragmatics of politeness and metapragmatics of Italian. Born in Belgium, she holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp.

"This book's purpose is to demonstrate, via the examination of popular youth literature from the 1920s through to the 1950s, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before the Great War, but intensified afterwards"--Provided by publisher

The approach to life through history.--The relation between research and interpretation.--The university and the republic.--The university and the remaking of the world.--The preacher and the forces of democracy.--Making theology live.--Dante and his century.--The genius of John Kelman.--America's debt to England.--The preacher as a reader of general literature.--Finding a permanent passion.--The place of religion in the new era. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Parts I and II cover the history of Florida including its discovery by Ponce de Leon, the establishment of colonies by various European nations, its purchase by the United States, statehood, involvement in the Civil War, Reconstruction and brief descriptions of events through World War I. Part III describes the Internal Improvement Fund, Florida's school system and the civil government of Florida. ; The geography of the state -- Part. I. The explorations. I. How Ponce de Leon discovered Florida -- II. Panfilo de Narvaez -- III. Hernando de Soto -- IV. The Indians of Florida -- Planting the colonies. V. A French colony in Florida -- VI. How the French colony was destroyed -- VII. The revenge of Dominique de Gourgues -- VIII. More about St. Augustine -- IX. The founding of Pensacola -- Colonial Florida. X. English neighbors -- XI. Florida a British colony -- XII. Second Spanish occupation -- XIII. Florida's part in the War of 1812 -- XIV. Jackson in Florida -- Part II. Territorial days. I. How Florida became a territory of the United States -- II. Governor Duval -- III. The new capital -- IV. The Scotch pioneers of the Euchee region -- The Seminole War. V. Governor Duval and the Indians -- VI. Beginning of the Seminole War -- VII. Dade Massacre, Withlacoochee, the blockhouse -- VIII. The capture of Osceola and Coacoochee -- IX. End of the Seminole War -- X. Governor Call -- Statehood and the Civil War. XI. How Florida became a state, and how she withdrew from the Union -- XII. Events of the war at Pensacola -- XIII. Jacksonville, Olustee -- XIV. Marianna -- XV. Natural Bridge -- XVI. End of the war -- Reconstruction and recent progress. XVII. Florida again in the Union -- XVIII. Drew, Bloxham, Perry, Fleming, Mitchell -- XIX. Bloxham, Jennings, Broward, Gilchrist -- Chronological table of principal events in parts I and II -- Establishment of counties -- Bibliography -- References for topical research -- Part III. Brief history of Internal Improvement Fund and railway development -- The Florida school system -- Civil government of Florida. Constitution of Florida, rearranged and simplified -- Florida election system -- Privileges and duties of Florida citizens -- Governors of Florida -- Population of Florida by counties -- Index. ; By Caroline Mays Brevard ; with questions, supplementary chapters and an outline of Florida civil government by H. E. Bennett. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 213), references for topical research (p. 214-216) and index. ; Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2003. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically digitized by the University of Central Florida from a book held in the Main Library at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

This open access book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of Chinese Marxist literary criticism as an independent theoretical form. It discusses and describes the theoretical features of the Chinese form of Marxist literary criticism by refining and re-interpreting the iconic key concepts of "people," "nation," "politics," "praxis," along with the relationships between literature, technology and capital. Literary criticism and value judgment has also been discussed at length with insightful and valuable views being provided. This book is a brilliant introduction to the topic and ideal academic material for global readers to grasp the essence of Chinese Marxist literary critical thought.

"A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets. All four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were between outmoded belief systems and various forms of artistic and political nihilism. While each believed in poetry as a source of cultural values and beliefs, they nevertheless experienced loss of confidence in their own vocation in a world characterized by scientific, rationalist thinking and the mundane struggle for survival. For each, therefore, the poetic imagination was a means of restoring order, or building a new civilization out of chaos. In trying to define a revitalized culture, the four exemplified the perennial quarrel between Europe and America."--Provided by publisher.