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Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness : = manners and morals from Locke to Austen /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness :/ Jenny Davidson.
其他題名:	manners and morals from Locke to Austen /
其他題名:	Hypocrisy & the Politics of Politeness
作者:	Davidson, Jenny,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (242 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	English literature - History and criticism. - 18th century -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484179
ISBN:	9780511484179 (ebook)

Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness : = manners and morals from Locke to Austen /
Davidson, Jenny,

Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness :manners and morals from Locke to Austen /Hypocrisy & the Politics of PolitenessJenny Davidson. - 1 online resource (242 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : the revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511484179 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Austen, Jane,
1775-1817--Technique.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English literature
--History and criticism.--18th century

LC Class. No.: PR448.C7 / D38 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/353

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