POLITENESS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
POLITENESS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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礼貌和对十八世纪英国的诠释
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10.1017/s0018246x02002716
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2002
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L. Klein
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L. Klein
礼貌在最近的历史学家和其他领域的历史学者对18世纪英国的解释中占据了重要地位。礼貌作为一个分析范畴的使用依赖于对18世纪该术语语义关联的不同评估，其中包括对形式的关注，社交，改进，世俗和绅士。学者们用礼貌的一个或多个这些意义上的特点，十八世纪英国文化的独特方面：在隔离和社会交往中的身体举止，日常生活的物质设备，不断变化的配置和使用的家庭和公共空间;技能和能力，既构成个人成就，又塑造了更大的文化事业，如宗教，学习，艺术和科学;以及协会和机构生活的重要方面。因此，18世纪的英国是有礼貌的，因为有许多不同的活动被认为带有18世纪“礼貌”含义的印记。此外，使18世纪的英国成为一个有礼貌的社会，并不是因为有礼貌的人和没有礼貌的人之间的横向划分，而是因为一系列人广泛地参与同时代人认为是“有礼貌”的活动和能力。
Politeness has assumed an important place in recent interpretations of eighteenth-century Britain by historians and historically minded scholars in other fields. The use of politeness as an analytic category has relied on varying assessments of the eighteenth-century semantic associations of the term, which included attentiveness to form, sociability, improvement, worldliness, and gentility. Scholars have used politeness in one or more of these senses to characterize distinctive aspects of eighteenth-century British culture: the comportment of the body in isolation and in social interaction; the material equipment of everyday life; the changing configurations and uses of domestic and public spaces; skills and aptitudes that both constituted personal accomplishment and shaped larger cultural enterprises such as religion, learning, the arts, and science; and important aspects of associational and institutional life. Thus, eighteenth-century Britain was polite in that a wide range of quite different activities have been identified as bearing the stamp of the eighteenth-century meanings of ‘politeness’. Furthermore, what made eighteenth-century Britain a polite society was not its horizontal division between polite and non-polite persons but rather the wide access of a range of persons to activities and competencies that contemporaries considered ‘polite’.