Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness
Subtitle: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 1, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521047388
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Political Science; English; Politics/International Relations
First sentence: Not the least remarkable aspect of Jonathan Swift's defense of hypocrisy, the Project for the Advancement of Religion (1709), is the extent to which Swift foregrounds the very word hypocrisy.