Jenny Davidson

Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness

Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Davidson examines the attitude of such writers as Locke and Austen towards hypocrisy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521047388
• ISBN-10: 0521047382
• Artikelnr.: 23173167

Autorenporträt

Jenny Davidson is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Studies in Romanticism. She is the author of a novel, Heredity (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the revolution in manners in eighteenth-century prose
1. Hypocrisy and the servant problem
2. Gallantry, adultery and the principles of politeness
3. Revolutions in female manners
4. Hypocrisy and the novel I: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
5. Hypocrisy and the novel II: a modest question about Mansfield Park
Coda: politeness and its costs
Notes
Bibliography
Index.