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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... sense of the word.8 While Armstrong's avowed goal is to bring the cultural back in touch with the political, for instance, her fascination with the ways in which the novel allowed women to reconceive of politics as psychology leads her ...
... sense of the word.8 While Armstrong's avowed goal is to bring the cultural back in touch with the political, for instance, her fascination with the ways in which the novel allowed women to reconceive of politics as psychology leads her ...
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... sense). “The truth is,” Mill says, “that the position of looking up to another is extremely unpropitious to complete sincerity and openness with him.”40 However desirable openness might be ( and Mill , like The revolution in manners in ...
... sense). “The truth is,” Mill says, “that the position of looking up to another is extremely unpropitious to complete sincerity and openness with him.”40 However desirable openness might be ( and Mill , like The revolution in manners in ...
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... Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Emma (1816). Together, these three novels revisit the questions about gender, power and deception that Pamela poses but leaves unresolved. Where Richardson oscillates in Pamela between endorsing an ethos ...
... Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Emma (1816). Together, these three novels revisit the questions about gender, power and deception that Pamela poses but leaves unresolved. Where Richardson oscillates in Pamela between endorsing an ethos ...
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... 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: used metaphorically, it offers a conventional analogy for ...
... 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: used metaphorically, it offers a conventional analogy for ...
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... of giving the term livery a positive inflection corre- sponds 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 servant problem 17.
... of giving the term livery a positive inflection corre- sponds 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 servant problem 17.
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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