Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness: Manners and morals from Locke to Austen

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 t...

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Tác giả chính:	Davidson, Jenny
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Ngôn ngữ:	English
Được phát hành:	Cambridge University 2013
Những chủ đề:	English literature Courtesy in literature Literature and society
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