Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… in eighteenth-century Britain. During the century, the term broadened away from men of lineage to encompass the rising middling sort. One criterion used to define these ‘new’ gentlemen’ was sociability, but this was a sociability that now had to … with many other entries in DIGIT.EN.S. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Benevolence Middling sort Politeness Rank The concepts of gentlemanliness and sociability were intimately entwined in …
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