Table of contents
Preface
VII
Manners, norms and transgressions: Introduction
1
Ipomedon and the elusive nature of blunders in the courtly
literature of medieval England
25
Unrestrained acting and norms of behaviour: Excess and instruction in The Legend of Good Women
51
Blunders and (un)intentional offence in Shakespeare
75
The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century
drama
101
“This Demon Anger”: Politeness conversation and control in eighteenth-century conduct books
for young women
121
A medical debate of “heated pamphleteering” in the early
eighteenth-century
141
Transgressions as a socialisation strategy in Samuel Richardson’s The
Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (1734)
165
Variations from letter-writing manuals:
Humble petitions signed by women in Late Modern
London
183
Impoliteness in Blunderland: Carroll’s Alice books and the manners in which manners fail
213
“Collect a thousand loyalty points and you get a free coffin”: Creative impoliteness in the TV comedy drama Doc
Martin
247
“Meaning you have been known to act rashly”: How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in
conflicts in the Harry Potter series
271
Name index
295
Subject index
297
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