Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… 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 conform to other qualities making the new gentlemen: … 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 eighteenth-century British … ). By the early eighteenth century, gentlemanly sociability was very closely associated with the concept of refined politeness. This still encompassed the art of pleasing in company and still had elite overtones in, for example, the …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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