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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... attack . While initially offering writers a provocative form in which to revise and critique popular assumptions about the relationship between virtue and politeness , the pro - hypocrisy argument subsequently ( once the rise of manners ...
... attack . While initially offering writers a provocative form in which to revise and critique popular assumptions about the relationship between virtue and politeness , the pro - hypocrisy argument subsequently ( once the rise of manners ...
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... attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a series of questions about texts by Locke, Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chester- field. What are the risks and ...
... attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a series of questions about texts by Locke, Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chester- field. What are the risks and ...
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... Attacks on manners can target discipline as such – as when Godwin attacks politeness as a form of coercion – or merely focus on the tyrannies of convention – as when Johnson tells Boswell to " clear [ his ] mind of cant " ( " You may ...
... Attacks on manners can target discipline as such – as when Godwin attacks politeness as a form of coercion – or merely focus on the tyrannies of convention – as when Johnson tells Boswell to " clear [ his ] mind of cant " ( " You may ...
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... attacks of reformers who question the assumptions about gender and power that underlie his commitment to politeness . In his essays , Hume addresses a female audience whose exclu- sion from the privileges of politeness poses an ...
... attacks of reformers who question the assumptions about gender and power that underlie his commitment to politeness . In his essays , Hume addresses a female audience whose exclu- sion from the privileges of politeness poses an ...
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... attack on politeness in all its forms repeatedly invokes the language and tropes of what I have called the servant ... attacks and parodies, including Fielding's Shamela (1741) and his other writings on hypocrisy, I show that Pamela ...
... attack on politeness in all its forms repeatedly invokes the language and tropes of what I have called the servant ... attacks and parodies, including Fielding's Shamela (1741) and his other writings on hypocrisy, I show that Pamela ...
Contenido
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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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