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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners Morals from Locke to Austen
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners Morals from Locke to Austen in Franklin, TN
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners Morals from Locke to Austen in Franklin, TN
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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 Austen believed that the public practice of vice was far more dangerous for society than discrepancies between what people say and do in private.
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.