The English Gentleman
Title | The English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Sutherland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Eccentrics and eccentricities |
ISBN | 9781853754180 |
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
Title | The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Christine Berberich |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1409489973 |
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
Title | Origins of the English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Keen |
Publisher | Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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.
Chivalry and the English Gentleman
Title | Chivalry and the English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Girouard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300027396 |
Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.
The Devil is an English Gentleman
Title | The Devil is an English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | John Cournos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | Faith |
ISBN |
The Compleat English Gentleman
Title | The Compleat English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
The English Gentleman
Title | The English Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Sutherland |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1980-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780140055979 |