Politeness and Its Discontents

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Author	: Peter France
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 268
Release	: 1992-01-09
ISBN-10	: 0521370701
ISBN-13	: 9780521370707
Rating	: 4/5 (01 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Politeness and Its Discontents by : Peter France

Book excerpt: This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture.

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