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Politeness and Its Discontents

Politeness and Its Discontents

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 35

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521370701
ISBN13: 9780521370707
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 9 1992
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal covered not just polite manners, but all the civilized norms of society and culture, as opposed to elements considered childish, irrational, savage or vulgar. Professor France shows how interpenetration and compromise between polite and rude, tame and wild, are central features of classical writings, arguing that polite society needed and desired its opposite.

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