A Short History of Rudeness

Touching on aspects of both our public and private lives, including work, family, and sex, Caldwell examines how the rules of our behavior have changed and explains why, no matter how hard we try, we can never return to a golden era of manners and mors.

Mark Caldwell is a literary critic and the author of an acclaimed sociomedical history of tuberculosis in America, The Last Crusade. He teaches at Fordham University and lives in Manhattan and New York's Hudson Valley.

Introduction

1

(15)

Part One--Public Life

Colonel Mann and Mrs. Post: Manners, Morals, and Class in Modern America

15

(31)

Manners in Motion: The Rise of Mobility and the Breakdown of Public Behavior

46

(23)

Manners from Nine to Five: Etiquette and Power in the American Workplace

69

(24)

Bride, Groom, and Corpse: Rituals and Rites of Passage

93

(26)

Virtual Rudeness: Mass Media, Mass Communications, Mass Mannerlessness

119

(28)

Part Two--Private Life

Mr. Bok and Martha: The Triumph of Lifestyle

147

(21)

The Lady in the Boutique and the Man in the G-String: Etiquette, Race, and Gender

168

(20)

From Jean-Jacques to Dr. Spock: Parents, Children, and Discipline

188

(24)

Co-Ed Naked Neo-Victorianism: Manners and Sex in the Nineties

212

(25)

Epilogue Manners for the Millennium

237

(8)

Notes

245

(20)

Index

265

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A Short History of Rudeness

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