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

Price 63.04 - 110.00 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780521835237

Author

Pages 256

Year of production 2004

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.