… in the eighteenth-century. This made it increasingly difficult to distinguish external performance from potential hypocrisy, betrayal, and falseness. The danger of enemies in disguise and thus the double-edged quality of friendship … Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). Jenny Davidson, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, … Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). Jenny Davidson, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …