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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... cultural criticism, which operates by situating texts in a dense network of cultural practices and artifacts, and rhetorical criticism, which proceeds by the close The revolution in manners in eighteenth-centuryprose 3.
... cultural criticism, which operates by situating texts in a dense network of cultural practices and artifacts, and rhetorical criticism, which proceeds by the close The revolution in manners in eighteenth-centuryprose 3.
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... cultural back in touch with the political, for instance, her fascination with the ways in which the novel allowed women to reconceive of politics as psychology leads her to ignore much of what the eighteenth century itself understood to ...
... cultural back in touch with the political, for instance, her fascination with the ways in which the novel allowed women to reconceive of politics as psychology leads her to ignore much of what the eighteenth century itself understood to ...
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... cultural and political communities. The thought-experiment I propose at the outset, then, is that hypocrisy be treated as morally neutral. Described by La Rochefoucauld as “the homage vice pays to virtue,” hypocrisy is also sometimes ...
... cultural and political communities. The thought-experiment I propose at the outset, then, is that hypocrisy be treated as morally neutral. Described by La Rochefoucauld as “the homage vice pays to virtue,” hypocrisy is also sometimes ...
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... cultural transformation with lasting consequences not just for Victorian England but for contemporary American culture as well. Manners – the social constraints that check the dictates of individual desire – represent a subtle but ...
... cultural transformation with lasting consequences not just for Victorian England but for contemporary American culture as well. Manners – the social constraints that check the dictates of individual desire – represent a subtle but ...
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... cultural domination: that “what some would mistakenly call values” are embedded “in the most automatic gestures or the apparently most insignificant techniques of the body – ways of walking or blowing one's nose, ways of eating or ...
... cultural domination: that “what some would mistakenly call values” are embedded “in the most automatic gestures or the apparently most insignificant techniques of the body – ways of walking or blowing one's nose, ways of eating or ...
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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