Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical CultureThis 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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Contents
Hyperbole | 11 |
Ogres | 27 |
Racines Phèdre | 40 |
Polish police polis | 53 |
Addison and Marivaux | 74 |
The commerce of the self | 97 |
The writer as performer | 113 |
Beyond politeness? Speakers and audience at | 129 |
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Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture Peter France No preview available - 2006 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture Issue 35 of Cambridge Studies in French |
| Authors | Peter France, Emeritus Professor of French Peter France |
| Contributor | Michael Sheringham |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0521370701, 9780521370707 |
| Length | 245 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / European / General Literary Criticism / Renaissance |
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