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Peculiar Christians, Circumstantial Courtiers, and the Making of Conversation in Seventeenth-Century England

Peculiar Christians, Circumstantial Courtiers, and the Making of Conversation in... This essay looks at both spiritual and secular "conversation guides" published during the Restoration era in order to argue that a primarily discursive and contingent tradition of courtly conversation converged with a primarily immanent and embodied Christian usage of the word in late seventeenth-century England. It was this process of convergence and the refined version of conversation that emerged from it that made possible the polite, progressive Whig social agenda of the eighteenth century. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Representations University of California Press

Peculiar Christians, Circumstantial Courtiers, and the Making of Conversation in Seventeenth-Century England

Representations , Volume 111 – Aug 1, 2010

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University of California Press
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Copyright © by the University of California Press
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0734-6018
eISSN
1533-855X
DOI
10.1525/rep.2010.111.1.33
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Abstract

This essay looks at both spiritual and secular "conversation guides" published during the Restoration era in order to argue that a primarily discursive and contingent tradition of courtly conversation converged with a primarily immanent and embodied Christian usage of the word in late seventeenth-century England. It was this process of convergence and the refined version of conversation that emerged from it that made possible the polite, progressive Whig social agenda of the eighteenth century.

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RepresentationsUniversity of California Press

Published: Aug 1, 2010

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