Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… often be less dangerous than friendship with another woman. 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 … They were so closely connected, in fact, that the potential for friendship to become an enmity was a constant source of anxiety for eighteenth-century moralists and conduct-book writers. Whilst enmity was a destructive and negative … clear cut and unambiguous. It was 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 …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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