Nuria Calvo Cortés
Biographic Data
| ID | 4425655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nuria Calvo Cortés |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nuria Calvo |
| FAMILY NAME | Cortés |
| SIGNATURE | CORTÉS N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1405-8943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Late Modern London Young Servants Hiding “the Bun in the Oven
I analyze, in terms of contemporaneous notions of politeness, the expressions of guilt and the excuses for being pregnant in petitions signed by girls and young women that were addressed to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, the first home in London for babies whose mothers could not look after them. My findings indicate that over half the petitions from these servants include excuses, but less than a fifth contain confessions of guilt, whi…
Politeness in Petitions Signed by Nineteenth Century British Women before being Transported to Australia
The nineteenth century witnessed the consolidation of the self within British society, which explains the development of the concept of face and the categorisation of the so-called Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), which became directly linked to the concept of politeness in the twentieth century. This study analyses fifteen nineteenth century manuscript petition letters signed by four women in prison. The analysis is two-fold. First, it compares the…
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Politeness in Petitions Signed by Nineteenth Century British Women before being Transported to Australia
The nineteenth century witnessed the consolidation of the self within British society, which explains the development of the concept of face and the categorisation of the so-called Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), which became directly linked to the concept of politeness in the twentieth century. This study analyses fifteen nineteenth century manuscript petition letters signed by four women in prison. The analysis is two-fold. First, it compares the…
Late Modern London Young Servants Hiding “the Bun in the Oven
I analyze, in terms of contemporaneous notions of politeness, the expressions of guilt and the excuses for being pregnant in petitions signed by girls and young women that were addressed to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, the first home in London for babies whose mothers could not look after them. My findings indicate that over half the petitions from these servants include excuses, but less than a fifth contain confessions of guilt, whi…
Art (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 work) · History (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Politeness (1 work) · Scottish History and National Identity (1 work) · Sociology (1 work)