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Hypocrisy and self-deception in Hawthorne's fiction
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ISBN: 0813911729 Year: 1988 Publisher: Charlottesville University Press of Virginia

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Droit et dissimulation
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ISBN: 9782802741220 2802741225 2802743163 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bruxelles : Bruylant,

Hypocrisy and the politics of politeness : manners and morals from Locke to Austen
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ISBN: 0521835232 0511196040 9780511196041 0511193998 1107149754 1280477962 0511195389 0511327145 0511484178 0511194730 0521047382 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : 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 shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and politeness, Davidson argues that eighteenth-century writers from Locke to Austen come down firmly on the side of politeness. This is the case even when it is associated with dissimulation or hypocrisy. These writers argue that the open profession of vice is far more dangerous for society than even the most glaring discrepancies between what people say in public and what they do in private. This book explores what happens when controversial arguments in favour of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between hypocrisy and more obviously attractive qualities like modesty, self-control and tact.

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Bienséance dans la littérature --- Conditions morales dans la littérature --- Courtesy in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Etiquette dans la Litérature --- Etiquette in de literatuur --- Etiquette in literature --- Huichelarij in de literatuur --- Hypocrisie dans la littérature --- Hypocrisie in de literatuur --- Hypocrisy in literature --- Moral conditions in literature --- Moraliteit in de literatuur --- Morals in literature --- Schijnheiligheid in de literatuur --- Wellevendheid in de literatuur --- Courtesy in literature. --- English literature --- Ethics in literature. --- Etiquette in literature. --- Hypocrisy in literature. --- Literature and society --- Moral conditions in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Austen, Jane --- Ethics --- Locke, John --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- England --- Austen, Jane, --- Locke, John, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Ethics. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Philanthropus, --- Lokk, Dzhon, --- Lūk, Jūn, --- Lo-kʻo, --- Locke, Giovanni, --- Lock, --- Lock, John, --- Rokku, Jon, --- לוק, י׳ון,

The economic consequences of the Gulf war
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ISBN: 0415052955 1138968226 9786610237104 1134939655 1280237104 0203992105 1134939647 Year: 1990 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The Iran-Iraq War were one of the longest and most devastating uninterrupted wars amongst modern nation states. It produced neither victor nor vanquished and left the regimes in both countries basically intact. However, it is clear that the domestic, regional and international repercussions of the war mean that 'going back' is not an option. Iraq owes too much to regain the lead it formerly held in economic performance and development levels. What then does reconstruction mean?In this book, Kamran Mofid counteracts the scant analysis to date of the economic consequences of the Gulf W

Privacy : concealing the eighteenth-century self
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ISBN: 0226768600 9786613150837 0226768619 1283150832 9780226768618 9781283150835 6613150835 9780226768601 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about insincerity. In Privacy, Patricia Meyer Spacks explores eighteenth-century concerns about privacy and the strategies people developed to avoid public scrutiny and social pressure. She examines, for instance, the way people hid behind common rules of etiquette to mask their innermost feelings and how, in fact, people were taught to employ such devices. She considers the erotic overtones that privacy aroused in its suppression of deeper desires. And perhaps most important, she explores the idea of privacy as a societal threat-one that bred pretense and hypocrisy in its practitioners. Through inspired readings of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, along with a penetrating glimpse into diaries, autobiographies, poems, and works of pornography written during the period, Spacks ultimately shows how writers charted the imaginative possibilities of privacy and its social repercussions. Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, Spacks's new work will fascinate anyone who has relished concealment or mourned its recent demise.


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Maria Theresa
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ISBN: 9780691179063 9780691219851 0691179069 0691219850 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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"In her time, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was the most powerful woman in the world. She ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740-1780, an era when empires dominated Europe. She was the sovereign of a vast empire, ruling Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Flanders, and other Habsburg territories, and by marriage she was, among other titles, the Holy Roman Empress. Maria Theresa began her reign at the age of 23 after her father, Emperor Charles VI, died. Immediately after his death, her right to inherit the throne was challenged by most of the sovereign rulers of Europe. Despite setbacks such as the loss of Silesia, her richest province, to her life-long enemy Frederick II of Prussia, Maria Theresa proved to be a highly effective ruler. She initiated financial and educational reforms, promoted commerce, and reorganized the army, all of which strengthened Austria's resources. She was a key figure in the power politics of eighteenth-century Europe and she brought unity to the Habsburg Monarchy and was considered one of its most capable leaders. Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I also had sixteen children, most famously Marie Antoinette. Stollberg-Rilinger's biography challenges many of the myths that surround Maria Theresa's reign, such as that she came to the throne completely naïve and unprepared. Stollberg-Rilinger shows that from early childhood on, Maria Theresa carefully observed what went on in court and how her father acted as a monarch dealing with sovereigns across Europe. She clears away the gendered misconceptions surrounding Maria Theresa's life and, through fresh, critical readings of the source material, reveals the historical reality. She also refutes anachronistic narratives that assume a false continuity between Maria Theresa's time and later periods. Unlike previous biographers, Stollberg-Rilinger is able to paint a detailed portrait of Maria Theresa as Empress, "king," and reformer, and as a mother and master manipulator, by reconstructing the world in which the Austrian Empress lived and reigned"--

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