Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
Summary
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- Hypocrisy and the Politics of PolitenessManners and Morals from Locke to Austen, pp. 180 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004