Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… sociability which intersects 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 … status that set a man apart from the lower orders, or plebeians. However, from the late seventeenth century British society was slowly being transformed. The growth of a commercial, consumer economy led to a decoupling of wealth from … 2 . Penelope J. Corfield, ‘The Rivals: Landed and Other Gentlemen’, Negley Harte and Roland Quinault, eds, Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 241-58. 3 . …
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