1st Edition
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800
By Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter
Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of genuine and generous sociability as befitted... Read more
List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Gentlemen, manliness and polite society 1 Exploring polite society 2 Men and the rise of politeness 3 The manliness of feeling 4 Effeminacy, foppery and the boundaries of polite society 5 Polite and impolite personalities Conclusion Further reading Index
Biography
Philip Carter is Research Editor on the New Dictionary of National Biography and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
