Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… false friends rather than enemies that had the potential to do the greatest harm. The anxiety that surrounded friendship formation was heightened by the rise of politeness in the eighteenth-century. This made it increasingly difficult to … hypocrisy, betrayal, and falseness. The danger of enemies in disguise and thus the double-edged quality of friendship formation was affirmed by Richard Steele’s remarks in a 1711 edition of The Spectator , in which he described how it was …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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