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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... 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 is assured) goes underground. It is transformed in the ...
... 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 is assured) goes underground. It is transformed in the ...
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... 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 Chesterfield. What are the risks and rewards of ...
... 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 Chesterfield. What are the risks and rewards of ...
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... forms of political power or the uses (not necessarily oppressive) of manners. While historians of sensibility such ... form of subjectivity developed first as a feminine discourse in certain literature for women,” I propose instead that ...
... forms of political power or the uses (not necessarily oppressive) of manners. While historians of sensibility such ... form of subjectivity developed first as a feminine discourse in certain literature for women,” I propose instead that ...
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... form of specific prescriptions for behavior. The fact that the last writers are all female is not coincidental. An important part of the story I tell here is how and why the thing called “tact” should go from being stigmatized at the ...
... form of specific prescriptions for behavior. The fact that the last writers are all female is not coincidental. An important part of the story I tell here is how and why the thing called “tact” should go from being stigmatized at the ...
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... forms oflanguage: not just with the provisions of the Test Acts, which asked dissenters and Catholics to be hypocritical for their own advantage and for that of the government, but also with the oath more generally, as a form of words ...
... forms oflanguage: not just with the provisions of the Test Acts, which asked dissenters and Catholics to be hypocritical for their own advantage and for that of the government, but also with the oath more generally, as a form of words ...
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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