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Authors: Jenny Davidson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-05-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She
Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters
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Authors: Jon C. R. Hall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-06 - Publisher: OUP USA

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This is a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and his correspondents, during the final decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon socioli
Jane Austen
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Authors: Laurence W. Mazzeno
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A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present. Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unus
Political Hypocrisy
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: David Runciman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselv
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: en
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Authors: Soile Ylivuori
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-29 - Publisher: Routledge

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This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextuali