Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture by Peter France

Cambridge Studies in French

Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture

Peter France

260 pages paperback

2 editions

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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...

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