Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen Contributor(s): Davidson, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521047382 ISBN-13: 9780521047388 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Jenny Davidson demonstrates how the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue thrived in eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. However, Davidson also concludes that eighteenth-century writers from Locke to Austen believed that the public practice of vice was far more dangerous for society than discrepancies between what people say and do in private. |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 820.935 |
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Contributor Bio(s): Davidson, Jenny: - Jenny Davidson is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Studies in Romanticism. She is the author of a novel, Heredity (2003). |