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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... language, yet while Pocock and his followers often seem unaware of the relevance of gender to eighteenth-century polit- ical writing, Armstrong and hers lack a vocabulary for talking about either the more traditional forms of political ...
... language, yet while Pocock and his followers often seem unaware of the relevance of gender to eighteenth-century polit- ical writing, Armstrong and hers lack a vocabulary for talking about either the more traditional forms of political ...
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... language of politeness offers a powerful alter- native to the language of subjectivity for describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into and representation within ...
... language of politeness offers a powerful alter- native to the language of subjectivity for describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into and representation within ...
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... language when writers defend the unspeak- able , for while hypocrisy can sometimes be exonerated , particularly when it is redefined in terms of self - control , there is a presumption of guilt in the case that distinguishes hypocrisy ...
... language when writers defend the unspeak- able , for while hypocrisy can sometimes be exonerated , particularly when it is redefined in terms of self - control , there is a presumption of guilt in the case that distinguishes hypocrisy ...
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... language : 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 in ...
... language : 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 in ...
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... language cover two quite different cases . One objection is to special forms of language , especially to the pressure - point of the oath ; the other is to con- ventional forms of language and to the daily erosion of meaning consequent ...
... language cover two quite different cases . One objection is to special forms of language , especially to the pressure - point of the oath ; the other is to con- ventional forms of language and to the daily erosion of meaning consequent ...
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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