Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Rochester Address or The Corporation Going To Eat Roast Pork and Oysters with the R-G-T’, Met Museum, 59.533.303, 1789. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Social Evening’, Met Museum, 59.533.1640(3), … now regarded as superficial, corrupting. This entry considers this shift in gentlemanly sociability which intersects with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence … Penelope Corfield calls ‘a sufficiently confident display’. 2 That is, if you could claim to be a gentleman and get away with it, you were a gentleman. Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85), whose life has been chronicled by Linda Colley, is a good …
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