| Politeness and Its Discontents Contributor(s): France, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521370701 ISBN-13: 9780521370707 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $117.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 840.935 |
| LCCN: 91009105 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (1.50 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |