Politeness and its Discontents
Problems in French Classical Culture
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- Author: Peter France
- Date Published: November 2006
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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 that polite society needed and desired its opposite.
Read more- Author well known in the field of French studies - editor of a new edition of Oxford Companion to French Literature
- Relevant to 17th- and 18th-century literature in Europe generally - contains material on Britain and Russia as well as France
- This topic has wide implications for the understanding of classical culture
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"These well-crafted essays are particularly valuable for their breadth of scholarship and for the attention paid to minor writers or less well-known works of major figures....Politeness and Its Discontents is a valuable...contribution to the debate over the meaning and legacy of the Enlightenment." Julie C. Hayes, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521029865
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.348kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Excess and Unreason:
1. Hyperbole
2. Ogres
3. Myth and modernity: Racine's Phèdre
Part II. Enlightened Sociability:
4. Polish, police, polis
5. The sociable essayist: Addison and Marivaux
6. The commerce of the self
7. The writer as performer
8. Beyond politeness? Speakers and audience at the Convention Nationale
Part III. Confronting the Other:
9. Translating the British
10. Jacques or his master? Diderot and the peasants
11. Enlightened primitivism
12. Frontiers of civilization
Notes
Index.
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