Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

ISBN-13: 9780521835237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 256 str.

Jenny Davidson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… is a model of its type - a timely, tightly argued and restlessly provocative monograph.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose; 1. Hypocrisy and the servant problem; 2. Gallantry, adultery and the principles of politeness; 3. Revolutions in female manners; 4. Hypocrisy and the novel I: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded; 5. Hypocrisy and the novel II: a modest question about Mansfield Park; Coda: politeness and its costs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.