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Politeness and Its Discontents

Problems in French Classical Culture

Politeness and Its Discontents( )
Author: France, Peter
Series title:Cambridge Studies in French Ser.
ISBN:978-0-511-55145-1
Publication Date:Oct 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $165.00
Book Description:

This 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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