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Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness : manners and morals from Locke to Austen /
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 eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. Davidson examines the attitude of such writers as Locke and Austen towards hypoc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. Davidson examines the attitude of such writers as Locke and Austen towards hypocrisy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511194730 9780511194733 9780511193996 0511193998 9780521835237 0521835232 0511195389 9780511195389 9780511484179 0511484178 9780521047388 0521047382 1107149754 9781107149755 1280477962 9781280477966 0511196040 9780511196041 0511327145 9780511327148 |