History Department Events Calendar
Eighteenth-Century PhD Workshop
Location: H4.02 (Humanities Building)
Eighteenth-Century PhD workshop
5 June 2008
Politeness
2.30-5.00
H. 4.02
2.30-4.00 pm: New perspectives on Eighteenth-Century PolitenessChair: Dr Stephane Van Damme
Philippa Hubbard, “Politeness and Eighteenth-Century History Today”
Readings: Paul Langford, 'The Uses of Eighteenth-Century Politeness', Transactions ofthe RHS 12 (2002): 311-31.***R.H. Sweet, 'Topographies of Politeness', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 12(2002): 355-74.
Katie Smith, “The Production of Politeness”
Reading: Larry Klein, ‘Politeness and the Interpretation of the British Eighteenth-century’, The Historical Journal, vol. 45, Number 4 (2002), pp. 869-898.
Helen Berry, 'Polite Consumption: Shopping in Eighteenth-Century England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 12 (2002), pp. 375-394.
Sarah Easterby-Smith, “Politeness and the history of science”
Reading: John Gascoigne, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (1994)
Tea Break
4.00-5.00 pm: Round-tableMaxine Berg
Giorgio Riello
Trevor Burnard
Mark Knights