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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... hypocrite, I point to a gap between what she says and what she does. I sometimes also attribute to the hypocrite a broader, more pervasive deceitfulness whose practice can include the insincerities associated with self-control and good ...
... hypocrite, I point to a gap between what she says and what she does. I sometimes also attribute to the hypocrite a broader, more pervasive deceitfulness whose practice can include the insincerities associated with self-control and good ...
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... hypocrite's often manipulative display of feelings that run the gamut from embarrassment to agony prompts some observers to defend the hypocrite, ifnot hypocrisy itself, by noting that hypocrisy exacts an immense psychic cost. For these ...
... hypocrite's often manipulative display of feelings that run the gamut from embarrassment to agony prompts some observers to defend the hypocrite, ifnot hypocrisy itself, by noting that hypocrisy exacts an immense psychic cost. For these ...
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... hypocrite] might be taught the excellency of virtue, by the necessity of seeming to be virtuous,” and hopes to reclaim “the man of affectation” (not yet a confirmed hypocrite) when he finds “how little he is likely to gain by perpetual ...
... hypocrite] might be taught the excellency of virtue, by the necessity of seeming to be virtuous,” and hopes to reclaim “the man of affectation” (not yet a confirmed hypocrite) when he finds “how little he is likely to gain by perpetual ...
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... hypocritical for their own advantage and for that of the government, but also with the oath more generally, as a form of words in which meaning had become equivocal. The revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose 9.
... hypocritical for their own advantage and for that of the government, but also with the oath more generally, as a form of words in which meaning had become equivocal. The revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose 9.
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... hypocritical: to exert modesty, tact and self-control to a degree that men could or would not. Another way of putting this is to say that by the start of the nineteenth century, women were not merely allowed, but actively encouraged, to ...
... hypocritical: to exert modesty, tact and self-control to a degree that men could or would not. Another way of putting this is to say that by the start of the nineteenth century, women were not merely allowed, but actively encouraged, to ...
Contenido
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15 | |
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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