Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989 - 166 Seiten Interest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized society. Evident is the dilemma of poets such as Parnell, Prior, Swift, Gay, and Pope. |
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... moral gentleness . When the Church put its authority behind chivalry it was attempting to reform aristocratic manners as well as providing a justification for them . As time went on , elements of resistance to the established norms ...
... moral gentleness . When the Church put its authority behind chivalry it was attempting to reform aristocratic manners as well as providing a justification for them . As time went on , elements of resistance to the established norms ...
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... moral education . " 40 It pays the clearest and most self - conscious atten- tion to what seem the relatively trivial details of dress and be- havior , providing cultural guidelines of extraordinary range and detail , which encompass ...
... moral education . " 40 It pays the clearest and most self - conscious atten- tion to what seem the relatively trivial details of dress and be- havior , providing cultural guidelines of extraordinary range and detail , which encompass ...
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... moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity and a degree of marginaliza- tion . In ...
... moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity and a degree of marginaliza- tion . In ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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