Hawkes, Peter W. (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEMES), France),Hytch, Martin (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recher
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Hawkes, Peter W. (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEMES), Toulouse, France),Hawkes, Peter W. (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National
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Hawkes, Peter W. (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEMES), Toulouse, France),Hytch, Martin (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de
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Howard Gaskill； Gerald Bar； Paul Barnaby； Francesca Broggi-Wuthrich； Mary-Ann Constantine； Peter France； Howard Gaskill； Andrew Ginger； Peter Graves； Sandro Jung
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Judy (Victoria University of Wellington Brown New Zealand),Peter (Malardalen University Soderbaum Sweden),Malgorzata (GREQAM Dereniowska France)
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Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov/ Peter France (EDT)/ Robyn Marsack (EDT)
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Peter W. (Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEMES) Hawkes Toulouse France),Erwin (Institute of Applied Physics Kasper University of Tuebingen Tuebing
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；Lindner, Peter (Retired soft matter scientist, formerly at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France.),Oberdisse, Julian (Soft matter scientist, CNRS director of research, Laboratoire Charles Co
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This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture. Within this general context, a series of familiar oppositions, between polite and rude, tame and wild, urban(e) and rustic, élite and popular, adult and child, reason and unreason, gives the initial impetus to enquiries which often show how these opposites interpenetrate, how hierarchies are reversed, and how compromises are sought. Polite society, like polite literature, needs and desires its opposite. The ideal is often the meeting of garden and wilderness, where the savage encounters the civilized and gifts are exchanged. Professor France points to the centrality, but also the vulnerability, in classical culture, of the ideal of 'politeness', and his discussion
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