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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... rhetorical flaws that were noticed at the time by writers hostile to politeness. Civility's opponents tend to attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a ...
... rhetorical flaws that were noticed at the time by writers hostile to politeness. Civility's opponents tend to attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a ...
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Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen Jenny Davidson. and artifacts, and rhetorical criticism, which proceeds by the close analysis of individual texts. I also aim to encourage conversation between two groups within the field of ...
Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen Jenny Davidson. and artifacts, and rhetorical criticism, which proceeds by the close analysis of individual texts. I also aim to encourage conversation between two groups within the field of ...
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... rhetorical success of Swift's Projectdepends in a very real sense on his careful management of two terms. One of these is hypocrisy. The other is livery, a word whose signification in eighteenth-century discourse is curiously divided ...
... rhetorical success of Swift's Projectdepends in a very real sense on his careful management of two terms. One of these is hypocrisy. The other is livery, a word whose signification in eighteenth-century discourse is curiously divided ...
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... rhetorical risk of giving the term livery a positive inflection corresponds quite closely to that of using the word hypocrisy itself in a favorable sense. Swift's Projectoffers a version of the famous liar's paradox, Hypocrisy and the ...
... rhetorical risk of giving the term livery a positive inflection corresponds quite closely to that of using the word hypocrisy itself in a favorable sense. Swift's Projectoffers a version of the famous liar's paradox, Hypocrisy and the ...
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... rhetorical exclusion. Hypocrisy is allowed to be a good thing for certain elements of society only because servants are forbidden as a class to practice what may be called the beneficial forms of hypocrisy; in other words, Swift is able ...
... rhetorical exclusion. Hypocrisy is allowed to be a good thing for certain elements of society only because servants are forbidden as a class to practice what may be called the beneficial forms of hypocrisy; in other words, Swift is able ...
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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 |
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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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