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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... describe the problem is to say that while Pocock, Quentin Skinner and others have opened up the history ofpolitical ... describing this critical configuration, I follow the lead of several literary scholars who have been especially ...
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... describe private as well as public machinations. “A curious Dilemma truly my Politics have run me into,” observes ... describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into ...
... describe private as well as public machinations. “A curious Dilemma truly my Politics have run me into,” observes ... describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into ...
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... describe a system of manners that divides the powerful from the powerless, Pierre Bourdieu argues that manners are a form of cultural domination: that “what some would mistakenly call values” are embedded “in the most automatic gestures ...
... describe a system of manners that divides the powerful from the powerless, Pierre Bourdieu argues that manners are a form of cultural domination: that “what some would mistakenly call values” are embedded “in the most automatic gestures ...
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... describes a three-way confrontation between Burke, Wollstonecraft and Godwin over the morality of manners. Wollstonecraft's rejection of gallantry and of the “system of dissimulation” propagated by conduct books for women remains the ...
... describes a three-way confrontation between Burke, Wollstonecraft and Godwin over the morality of manners. Wollstonecraft's rejection of gallantry and of the “system of dissimulation” propagated by conduct books for women remains the ...
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... describe both a servant's dress and a habit that becomes a second nature. But even a quick survey of early eighteenth-century writing on servants reveals that livery's connotations are almost entirely negative. In fact, the rhetorical ...
... describe both a servant's dress and a habit that becomes a second nature. But even a quick survey of early eighteenth-century writing on servants reveals that livery's connotations are almost entirely negative. In fact, the rhetorical ...
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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