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  • 2015

  • Harrington, Dana (2015): Developing Democratic Dispositions. Eighteenth-Century Public Debating Societies and the Generative Capacity of Decorum. In: RHETORIC SOCIETY QUARTERLY 45 (4), S. 324-345

    Abstract: This essay argues that public debating societies that emerged in Britain in the later eighteenth century functioned as sites of invention where citizens could develop dispositions associated with a more inclusive form of democracy. I locate the generative aspects of these forums in the principle of decorum. I argue that this principle functioned as a means for participants to negotiate traditional codes of conduct and standards of speech that constrained interactions among various constituents of the body politic. To illustrate this claim, I focus on the clash of codes exemplified in an encounter between a Quaker woman and a member of Parliament in a public debating forum. By highlighting these discursive interactions, this essay extends current conversations in public sphere theory that call for a focus on the processes and forms of rhetorical engagement among diverse publics.

    Keywords: Beispiel, Code of conduct, decorum, Natur & Genese von Normen, Öffentliche, diskursive Aushandlung von Anstand, Rhetorik

  • 2009

  • Mackie, Gregory (2009): The Function of Decorum at the Present Time. Manners, Moral Language, and Modernity in ’an Oscar Wilde Play’. In: MODERN DRAMA 52 (2), S. 145-167

    Abstract: In the distinctive, epigrammatic idiom of his society comedies, where dialogue is shaped by the formulae of conventional instructional maxims about what one should and shouldn't do, Oscar Wilde inverts and aestheticizes the assumed ethical basis of a code of conduct that relies on the language of decorum. His drama suggestively articulates a considerable degree of slippage between manners, on the one hand, and morals, on the other. This essay argues, in fact, that Wildean aphoristic speech playfully rewrites late-Victorian etiquette literature, exploiting the ironic distance between moral assumptions and a more formulaic reality.

    Keywords: Beispiel, Code of conduct, decorum, humor, Kunst, Literaturwissenschaft, manners, Moral, Morals, Oscar Wilde, Regelwerke, Werte
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