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The Blight of Respectability

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The Blight of Respectability

Geoffrey Mortimer

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Respectability, Mortimer argues, is a blight: a soft tyranny that trades truth for appearances. His essays attack the conventional pieties of dress, opinion, and conduct with a cheerful iconoclasm rare for the 1890s. A contrarian pamphlet against keeping up appearances. For readers who suspect the neighbors' approval costs too much.

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17 chapters

  1. 1THE BLIGHT OF RESPECTABILITY
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3CHAPTER I.
  4. 4CHAPTER II.
  5. 5CHAPTER III.
  6. 6FOOTNOTE:
  7. 7CHAPTER IV.
  8. 8FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9CHAPTER V.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI.
  11. 11FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12CHAPTER VII.
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII.
  14. 14CHAPTER IX.
  15. 15CHAPTER X.
  16. 16CHAPTER XI.
  17. 17Transcriber's Note:
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