Politeness and Its Discontents

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in French Series)

by Peter France

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521370701

ISBN13:9780521370707

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"

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