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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... modesty, self-control and tact. jenny davidson is Assistant Professor of English and Compara- tive Literature at Columbia University. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Studies in Romanticism. She is ...
... modesty, self-control and tact. jenny davidson is Assistant Professor of English and Compara- tive Literature at Columbia University. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Studies in Romanticism. She is ...
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... modesty , self - control and tact ; thus redefined , hypocrisy and its affiliates ( a cluster of related terms , including gallantry , manners and tact , all coming under the umbrella of politeness ) assume a dominant position in ...
... modesty , self - control and tact ; thus redefined , hypocrisy and its affiliates ( a cluster of related terms , including gallantry , manners and tact , all coming under the umbrella of politeness ) assume a dominant position in ...
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... modesty, Mansfield Park reclaims tact and female reticence as forms of sociability that serve the inter- ests both of women as a group and of society at large, while simultaneously pointing out their substantial cost to individual women ...
... modesty, Mansfield Park reclaims tact and female reticence as forms of sociability that serve the inter- ests both of women as a group and of society at large, while simultaneously pointing out their substantial cost to individual women ...
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... modesty are already intertwined with and mutually dependent on arguments about politeness in the public sphere.10 In describing this critical configuration, I follow the lead of several liter- ary scholars who have been especially ...
... modesty are already intertwined with and mutually dependent on arguments about politeness in the public sphere.10 In describing this critical configuration, I follow the lead of several liter- ary scholars who have been especially ...
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... modesty, an elaborate cultural construction whose artifice was very gen- erally recognized even by those who endorsed it. Despite Wollstonecraft's arguments against modesty as a system of dissimulation, women at the beginning of the ...
... modesty, an elaborate cultural construction whose artifice was very gen- erally recognized even by those who endorsed it. Despite Wollstonecraft's arguments against modesty as a system of dissimulation, women at the beginning of the ...
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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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