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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"gentility"”.
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
This study analyzes the impact of eighteenth-century commercialization on the evolution of the English and southern American landed classes with regard to three genteel leadership qualities--education, vocation, and personal characteristics. A simultaneous comparison provides a clearer view of how …
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
1 PDF file (iii, 133 pages)
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A Stage for Gentility and the Performance of the Republican Gentleman: Taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820
This thesis assesses the ways in which gentility served as a catalyst for the creation of a new masculine identity during the early American republic: the Republican Gentleman. In particular, I utilize taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820, in which to understand the significance of …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… engages with early modern debates about gentility through close readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VI, Part 2, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. Rather than treating gentility in Shakespeare's drama as a broad social identity or a loose symbolic repository of moral and cultural …
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Refinement and Architecture in Early Ypsilanti
… in the nineteenth century. They instead modified gentility to become a form of respectability that suited their needs. By examining one small town in which gentility was unrealistic and undesired, we can conclude that Americans in other periphery locales had differing opinions and feelings toward …
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Chief inhabitants and their areas of influence: local ruling groups in Essex and Suffolk parishes 1630-1720.
… inhabitants' was expressing its aspirations to gentility through such ostentatious consumption.: This was a means of consolidating their social position, and extending their role as a local elite. The final chapter concentrates on this highest group. By examining a variety of individual cases, …
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Towards an Archaeology of Belonging: Corporate Agriculture in the San Emigdio Hills, California and the Transformation of the Modern American West
… utilized fences to express outward notions of gentility. Ultimately, three forms of Belonging are proposed, consisting of instrumental, imagined and bridge attachments.
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… England no longer able to venerate cosmopolitan gentility, making visible the necessary entanglement of new-fangled masculinity and national tradition. Finally, the early works of A.S Byatt and Margaret Drabble telescope the literary and masculine struggle of the new post-war Englishman from the …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… she also maintained the tradition of southern gentility and hospitality. Entertaining groups of soldiers, students, politicians, and suffragettes, she democratically made the people of the Old Dominion very much at home in the executive mansion during the Davis administration (1918-1922). From …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… balance between industry and idleness among the gentility. The ornamental dairy was a space whose signification was employed by women to create an acceptable realm for productive yet pleasurable activity to counter stereotypes of idleness and decadence. As structures related to the dialogue of …
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The Age of Insects: Gender, Class, Race and the Experience of British Entomology in the Long Nineteenth Century
… were shaped by a dominant streak of middle-class gentility, which upheld an ideal of the ‘true’ entomologist, defined by a gentlemanly character. This is showcased in debates of the late nineteenth century, which deemed the over-collecting of butterfly species ungentlemanly: those who displayed …