Download or read book The Crisis of Courtesy written by Jacques Carré and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Crisis of Courtesy" explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.