Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… History (London: Equinox, 2009), pp. 1–64. 2 . Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son on Men and Manners (5th edn, London, 1788), pp. 72, 87. The earliest literature on friendship also stressed the social importance of … sincerity associated with women, meant that female company came to encapsulate many of the ideals of civility and good manners expected of people of quality. 10 However, the consequences of failed or false friendship were also more … 14 The rise of polite culture may even have enhanced the anxiety surrounding false friendship. This was a time when manners, language, gestures, and deportment were increasingly regulated and expected to conform to certain cultural …
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