Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness

Jenny Davidson Demonstrates How The Arguments That Define Hypocrisy As A Moral And Political Virtue Thrived In Eighteenth-Century Britain''S Culture Of Politeness. However Davidson Also Concludes That Eighteenth-Century Writers From Locke To Austen Believed That The Public Practice Of Vice Was Far More Dangerous For Society Than Discrepancies Between What People Say And Do In Private.