Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to AustenCambridge University Press, 2004 M05 6 - 242 páginas In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and politeness, Davidson argues that eighteenth-century writers from Locke to Austen come down firmly on the side of politeness. This is the case even when it is associated with dissimulation or hypocrisy. These writers argue that the open profession of vice is far more dangerous for society than even the most glaring discrepancies between what people say in public and what they do in private. This book explores what happens when controversial arguments in favour of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between hypocrisy and more obviously attractive qualities like modesty, self-control and tact. |
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... Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded 5 Hypocrisy and the novel ii: a modest question about Mansfield Park Coda: Politeness and its costs Notes Bibliography Index page ix 15 46 76 108 146 170 180 213 230 Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would ...
... Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded 5 Hypocrisy and the novel ii: a modest question about Mansfield Park Coda: Politeness and its costs Notes Bibliography Index page ix 15 46 76 108 146 170 180 213 230 Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would ...
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... Pamela–Shamela controversy of the1740s, eighteenth-century Britain's most public and most fully worked-out debate on hypocrisy; in the fifth chapter, I turn to Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), teasing out of the novel the strands of an ...
... Pamela–Shamela controversy of the1740s, eighteenth-century Britain's most public and most fully worked-out debate on hypocrisy; in the fifth chapter, I turn to Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), teasing out of the novel the strands of an ...
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... Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740–1741) and Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), which returns to many of the issues defined by Pamela. Chapter 2 traces the development by writers of the Scottish Enlightenment of a vocabulary for talking ...
... Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740–1741) and Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), which returns to many of the issues defined by Pamela. Chapter 2 traces the development by writers of the Scottish Enlightenment of a vocabulary for talking ...
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... Pamela poses but leaves unresolved. Where Richardson oscillates in Pamela between endorsing an ethos of transparency and providing an elaborate defense of certain kinds of deception (on the grounds that they are justified by Pamela's ...
... Pamela poses but leaves unresolved. Where Richardson oscillates in Pamela between endorsing an ethos of transparency and providing an elaborate defense of certain kinds of deception (on the grounds that they are justified by Pamela's ...
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Contenido
1 | |
15 | |
chapter two Gallantry adultery and the principles of politeness | 46 |
chapter three Revolutions in female manners | 76 |
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded | 108 |
a modest question about Mansfield Park | 146 |
coda Politeness and its costs | 170 |
Notes | 180 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 230 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ... Jenny Davidson Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ... Jenny Davidson Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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