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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... things that happen in language when writers defend the unspeak- able , for while hypocrisy can sometimes be exonerated , particularly when it is redefined in terms of self - control , there is a presumption of guilt in the case that ...
... things that happen in language when writers defend the unspeak- able , for while hypocrisy can sometimes be exonerated , particularly when it is redefined in terms of self - control , there is a presumption of guilt in the case that ...
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... thing called “ tact ” should go from being stigmatized at the beginning of the eighteenth century as a vice associated with effete male French aristocrats to being embraced at the start of the nineteenth cen- tury as the domestic virtue ...
... thing called “ tact ” should go from being stigmatized at the beginning of the eighteenth century as a vice associated with effete male French aristocrats to being embraced at the start of the nineteenth cen- tury as the domestic virtue ...
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... thing than the amalgam of sincerity and dissembling that Richardson attributes to Pamela. Both Pamela and Fanny Price, however, experience the psychological costs of self-concealment as well as its tactical advantages, and Mansfield ...
... thing than the amalgam of sincerity and dissembling that Richardson attributes to Pamela. Both Pamela and Fanny Price, however, experience the psychological costs of self-concealment as well as its tactical advantages, and Mansfield ...
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... thing – depend on the successful management of a body of arguments about the manners of servants . Swift's allusion to these debates in the Project works as a sur- prisingly effective counterweight to his controversial defense of ...
... thing – depend on the successful management of a body of arguments about the manners of servants . Swift's allusion to these debates in the Project works as a sur- prisingly effective counterweight to his controversial defense of ...
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... thing for certain elements of society only because servants are forbidden as a class to practice what may be called the bene- ficial forms of hypocrisy; in other words, Swift is able to retain hypocrisy as an upper-class privilege ...
... thing for certain elements of society only because servants are forbidden as a class to practice what may be called the bene- ficial forms of hypocrisy; in other words, Swift is able to retain hypocrisy as an upper-class privilege ...
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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