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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

by Jenny Davidson

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Nonfiction Books » Literary Nonfiction

Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

by Jenny Davidson

Other books by Jenny Davidson

Heredity by Jenny Davidson

The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson

Invisible Things by Jenny Davidson

The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson

Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century by Jenny Davidson

Our most recommended books

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by Jean Mohr & John Berger

House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson

The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

Frissure by Kathleen Jamie

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Heredity
by Jenny Davidson

The Explosionist
by Jenny Davidson

Invisible Things
by Jenny Davidson

The Magic Circle
by Jenny Davidson

Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
by Jenny Davidson

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by Jean Mohr & John Berger

House of Hunger
by Dambudzo Marechera

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
by Frances Wilson

The Mighty Queens of Freeville
by Amy Dickinson

Frissure
by Kathleen Jamie