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Good Condition. Library sticker on front cover, and ink stamps to endpapers and text block edges, including withdrawn stamp. No dust jacket. Clean pages, free from notes or highlighting. Bindings secure and firm. In good order overall. Publisher's note: 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. Within this general context, a series of familiar oppositions, between polite and rude, tame and wild, urban(e) and rustic, élite and popular, adult and child, reason and unreason, gives the initial impetus to enquiries which often show how these opposites interpenetrate, how hierarchies are reversed, and how compromises are sought. Polite society, like polite literature, needs and desires its opposite. The ideal is often the meeting of garden and wilderness, where the savage encounters the civilized and gifts are exchanged. Professor France points to the centrality, but also the vulnerability, in classical culture, of the ideal of 'politeness', and his discussion embraces revolutionary eloquence and enlightened primitivism, the value of hyperbole, and the essay as a form of polite sociability. Size: 21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm. xi, 243 pp. Category: Great Britain; Economic history; Social conditions; 23.22; ISBN: 0521370701. Add. Inventory No: 220401QNSW024064.
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