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Book Origins of the English Gentleman

Download or read book Origins of the English Gentleman written by Maurice Keen and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The English Gentleman

Download or read book The English Gentleman written by Douglas Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature

Download or read book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature written by Christine Berberich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature

Download or read book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature written by Dr Christine Berberich and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The English Gentleman

Download or read book The English Gentleman written by Philip Mason and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative social history chronicles the rise and fall of an intriguing social phenomenon--the ideal of a gentleman--tracing its history from Chaucer's "gentle knight," through the Victorian era, to the present day

Book The English Gentleman

Download or read book The English Gentleman written by English gentleman and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Compleat English Gentleman

Download or read book The Compleat English Gentleman written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Gentleman  His Principles  His Feelings  His Manners  His Pursuits

Download or read book The English Gentleman His Principles His Feelings His Manners His Pursuits written by English Gentleman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Gentleman

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  • Author : English Gentleman
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02-21
  • ISBN : 9781293664179
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The English Gentleman written by English Gentleman and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book One Savile Row

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  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2014-10-14
  • ISBN : 2080201883
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book One Savile Row written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handsome volume covering all aspects of bespoke tailoring. Savile Row is the world’s iconic address for the best in bespoke tailoring, and home to legendary Gieves & Hawkes, suppliers to the British military for more than two centuries and furnishers to elegant gentlemen today. The company began by designing attire for Britain’s most illustrious officers, including Admiral Lord Nelson and The Duke of Wellington, as well as ten generations of British royalty, from King George III in 1809 to Princes William and Harry today. As masculine attire evolved after World War I, Gieves & Hawkes added civilian clothing to its repertoire applying centuries of expertise in creating hand-made garments—proportion, cutting, fitting, and quality fabrics—to the finest bespoke tailoring. This volume traces the rich history of tailoring, drawing from Gieves & Hawkes’ vast, unpublished archives of client ledgers, garments and accessories, and photographs. Including today’s bespoke tailoring and ready-to-wear collections, this is an indispensible book on classic men’s style and fine tailoring.

Book A Polite Exchange of Bullets

Download or read book A Polite Exchange of Bullets written by Stephen Banks and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The English Gentleman Merchant at Work

Download or read book The English Gentleman Merchant at Work written by Søren Mentz and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity.

Book The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel

Download or read book The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel written by Robin Gilmour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book represents the first comprehensive examination of Victorian society’s preoccupation with the ‘notion of the gentleman’ and how this was reflected in the literature of the time. Starting with Addison and Lord Chesterfield, the author explores the influence of the gentlemanly ideal on the evolution of the English middle classes, and reveals its central part in the novels of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope. Combining social and cultural analysis with literary criticism, this book provides new readings of Vanity Fair and Great Expectations, a fresh approach to Trollope, and a detailed account of the various streams that fed into the idea of the gentleman.

Book The English Gentleman s Library Manual

Download or read book The English Gentleman s Library Manual written by William Goodhugh and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knapp Coll.

Book Chivalry and the English Gentleman

Download or read book Chivalry and the English Gentleman written by Mark Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.

Book The English Gentleman s Library Manual  Or  a Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature     with Original Notices     of Authors and Books

Download or read book The English Gentleman s Library Manual Or a Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature with Original Notices of Authors and Books written by William GOODHUGH and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Doctrine of the English Gentleman in the Sixteenth Century

Download or read book The Doctrine of the English Gentleman in the Sixteenth Century written by Ruth Kelso and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: