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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... virtue in the new society of transactions as he can.23 Later writers in the century will be less defensive , taking up Mandeville's ideas without his cynicism as they claim that commerce itself civilizes , though they too have their ...
... virtue in the new society of transactions as he can.23 Later writers in the century will be less defensive , taking up Mandeville's ideas without his cynicism as they claim that commerce itself civilizes , though they too have their ...
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... virtue and friendship : With Friendship and Esteem possest , I n'er admitted Love a Guest . If his satires on women are unusually violent for the period , he is also less inclined to write patronizingly , as Ellen Pollak has shown , 16 ...
... virtue and friendship : With Friendship and Esteem possest , I n'er admitted Love a Guest . If his satires on women are unusually violent for the period , he is also less inclined to write patronizingly , as Ellen Pollak has shown , 16 ...
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... Virtue , Commerce and His- tory by J. G. A. Pocock . Times Literary Supplement , 27 June 1986 , p . 715 . Greenleaf , W. H. Order , Empiricism and Politics : Two Traditions of English Political Thought , 1500-1700 . Oxford : University ...
... Virtue , Commerce and His- tory by J. G. A. Pocock . Times Literary Supplement , 27 June 1986 , p . 715 . Greenleaf , W. H. Order , Empiricism and Politics : Two Traditions of English Political Thought , 1500-1700 . Oxford : University ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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