| Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen Rev. and Update Edition Contributor(s): Davidson, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521835232 ISBN-13: 9780521835237 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2004 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 |
| LCCN: 2003065201 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.46" W x 9.22" (1.20 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). |