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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... 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 favor of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it ...
... 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 favor of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it ...
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... Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and its Northeast and East-Central affiliates; to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium of the Yale English Department; and to the fellows at the Whitney Humanities Center. I would like ...
... Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and its Northeast and East-Central affiliates; to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium of the Yale English Department; and to the fellows at the Whitney Humanities Center. I would like ...
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... society. Indeed, if everyone suddenly stopped lubricating social interactions with politeness, the consequences for the institutions of daily life – families, schools, religious organizations, companies, governments – would likely be ...
... society. Indeed, if everyone suddenly stopped lubricating social interactions with politeness, the consequences for the institutions of daily life – families, schools, religious organizations, companies, governments – would likely be ...
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... society at large, while simultaneously pointing out their substantial cost to individual women. My project offers a hybrid of two methodologies: cultural criticism, which operates by situating texts in a dense network of cultural ...
... society at large, while simultaneously pointing out their substantial cost to individual women. My project offers a hybrid of two methodologies: cultural criticism, which operates by situating texts in a dense network of cultural ...
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... do: you may say to a man, 'Sir, I am your most humble 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 think 8 Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness.
... do: you may say to a man, 'Sir, I am your most humble 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 think 8 Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness.
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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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