Author: Douglas Sutherland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853754180
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.
The English Gentleman
Author: Douglas Sutherland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853754180
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853754180
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.
The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature
Author: Dr Christine Berberich
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Origins of the English Gentleman
Author: Maurice Keen
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this work, Maurice Keen explores why a host of men were accepted as entitled to coat armour because they were 'gentlemen', not because they were knights or of knightly ancestry.
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this work, Maurice Keen explores why a host of men were accepted as entitled to coat armour because they were 'gentlemen', not because they were knights or of knightly ancestry.
The Devil is an English Gentleman
Author: John Cournos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Compleat English Gentleman
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Chivalry and the English Gentleman
Author: Mark Girouard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300027396
Category : History
Languages : nl
Pages : 312
Book Description
Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300027396
Category : History
Languages : nl
Pages : 312
Book Description
Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.
The English Gentleman's Wife
Author: Douglas Sutherland
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140057348
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Foreward by Duchess of Newcastle Introduction by Lady Windlesham
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140057348
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Foreward by Duchess of Newcastle Introduction by Lady Windlesham
Training of an English Gentleman
Author: Yolanda Celbridge
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753538431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Innocent Roger is embroiled in a world of lustful secrets. His voyeuristic host and his wife, their daughter and their maid all conspire to humiliate him by imposing severe corporal punishment. However his virility satisfies the County Ladies and earns their respect becoming the true mark of an English Gentleman.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753538431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Innocent Roger is embroiled in a world of lustful secrets. His voyeuristic host and his wife, their daughter and their maid all conspire to humiliate him by imposing severe corporal punishment. However his virility satisfies the County Ladies and earns their respect becoming the true mark of an English Gentleman.
Becoming the Gentleman
Author: J. Solinger
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230391842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230391842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
A Polite Exchange of Bullets
Author: Stephen Banks
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835711
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835711
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.