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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... century prose I Hypocrisy and the servant problem 2 Gallantry , adultery and the principles of politeness 3 Revolutions in female manners 4 Hypocrisy and the novel 1 : Pamela , or Virtue Rewarded 5 Hypocrisy and the novel II : a modest ...
... century prose I Hypocrisy and the servant problem 2 Gallantry , adultery and the principles of politeness 3 Revolutions in female manners 4 Hypocrisy and the novel 1 : Pamela , or Virtue Rewarded 5 Hypocrisy and the novel II : a modest ...
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... Century Studies and its Northeast and East-Central affiliates; to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium of the Yale English Department; and to the fellows at the Whitney Humanities Center. I would like to thank everyone who ...
... Century Studies and its Northeast and East-Central affiliates; to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium of the Yale English Department; and to the fellows at the Whitney Humanities Center. I would like to thank everyone who ...
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... century. prose. Very few people are willing to speak up for hypocrisy. As a rule, to use the word at all is to position oneself against it.1 I am no more likely to identify myself as a hypocrite than I am to call myself a cannibal ...
... century. prose. Very few people are willing to speak up for hypocrisy. As a rule, to use the word at all is to position oneself against it.1 I am no more likely to identify myself as a hypocrite than I am to call myself a cannibal ...
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... century arguments for hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right , arguments that thrived in the medium of what Lawrence Klein has called " the culture of politeness . " Recent accounts of eighteenth - century British ...
... century arguments for hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right , arguments that thrived in the medium of what Lawrence Klein has called " the culture of politeness . " Recent accounts of eighteenth - century British ...
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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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