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

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

Jenny Davidson

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 Auste...

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