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: industriousness, sincerity, honesty, … son on the art of pleasing were 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 & …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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