Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen By Jenny Davidson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0521835232 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0521835232 | PDF | 2 MB
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 what they do in private.