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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Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture
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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Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture
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Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521029865 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/02/2006 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in French , #35 |
| Pages: | 260 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.47(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.55(d) |
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