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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... Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” Studies in Romanticism 39 (Winter 2000): 599–615 (and particular thanks to the Trustees of ...
... Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” Studies in Romanticism 39 (Winter 2000): 599–615 (and particular thanks to the Trustees of ...
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... sincerity increasingly problematic , with the effect of polarizing truth and civility . Among the advocates of politeness are writers like Swift , Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization . Their arguments for civility ...
... sincerity increasingly problematic , with the effect of polarizing truth and civility . Among the advocates of politeness are writers like Swift , Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization . Their arguments for civility ...
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... sincerity for Burke's chivalry and politeness. While Wollstonecraft offers one of the eigh- teenth century's most persuasive challenges to the ethos of politeness – challenge framed in terms of gender, and one that is in many ways more ...
... sincerity for Burke's chivalry and politeness. While Wollstonecraft offers one of the eigh- teenth century's most persuasive challenges to the ethos of politeness – challenge framed in terms of gender, and one that is in many ways more ...
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... sincerity? Regardless of an individual's initial motivation, habit can become second nature in contexts as various as religious observance, oaths of political allegiance, courtesy to a spouse and deference to a superior. In the Rambler ...
... sincerity? Regardless of an individual's initial motivation, habit can become second nature in contexts as various as religious observance, oaths of political allegiance, courtesy to a spouse and deference to a superior. In the Rambler ...
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... sincerity and benevolence.29 The eighteenth century had a different list of the most damaging forms of insincerity . The religious settlement of the Restoration had institutional- ized in Britain a system whereby individuals employed in ...
... sincerity and benevolence.29 The eighteenth century had a different list of the most damaging forms of insincerity . The religious settlement of the Restoration had institutional- ized in Britain a system whereby individuals employed in ...
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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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