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Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture (Cambridge Studies in French)
Politeness and its Discontents Problems in French Classical Culture - Cambridge Studies in French
Author: Peter France
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 interpenetra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521029865
ISBN-10: 0521029864
Publication Date: 11/2/2006
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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