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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... Servant Prob- lem,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 105–125; “'Professed Enemies of Politeness': Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of ...
... Servant Prob- lem,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 105–125; “'Professed Enemies of Politeness': Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of ...
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... servants and women? a Chapter 3 addresses a pivotal moment in the history of politeness, when the revolution controversy of the 1790s pits Burke against a group of adver- saries, including Wollstonecraft and Godwin, who substitute ...
... servants and women? a Chapter 3 addresses a pivotal moment in the history of politeness, when the revolution controversy of the 1790s pits Burke against a group of adver- saries, including Wollstonecraft and Godwin, who substitute ...
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... servant . ' You are not his most humble servant . . . You may talk in this manner ; it is a mode of talking in Society : but don't 8 Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness.
... servant . ' You are not his most humble servant . . . You may talk in this manner ; it is a mode of talking in Society : but don't 8 Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness.
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... servant to an unwanted visitor that the master or mistress is “ not at home . " I will argue that the presence of servants in these two key exam- ples of insincerity is significant , corroborating Paul Langford's observation that the ...
... servant to an unwanted visitor that the master or mistress is “ not at home . " I will argue that the presence of servants in these two key exam- ples of insincerity is significant , corroborating Paul Langford's observation that the ...
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... servants, the new legitimacy of manners as a political topos also offered crucial oppor- tunities to the previously excluded. While servants as a group were largely unable to take advantage of the opportunity to pass across class lines ...
... servants, the new legitimacy of manners as a political topos also offered crucial oppor- tunities to the previously excluded. While servants as a group were largely unable to take advantage of the opportunity to pass across class lines ...
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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 |
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