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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"gentleman"”.
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Chester Holcombe: The Christian Gentleman in Victorian America.
Some historians have focused recently on the transformation of America from rural agrarian society to modern, urban industrial state. Robert Wiebe called the social response to this transition a search for order. The difficulty in applying this concept to historical interpretation is that the …
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Gentleman Johnny Plays War: John Burgoyne and The Blockade of Boston
John Burgoyne, a British general during the American Revolution, is best known for his defeat by the Continental Army at Saratoga. In addition to serving as a general,Burgoyne was a playwright. While in Boston during the blockade following the Battle ofBunker Hill Burgoyne combined his interests, …
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‘Our champion and gentleman’ : Dick Reynolds and the Essendon Football Club, 1933-1951
Dick Reynolds was one of Australian Rules football’s finest ever contributors, yet he has rarely featured in the corpus of literature on the history of the game. At the height of his fame he was compared with Australia’s finest sportsman of the era, Don Bradman, and he also drew comparisons with …
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Joshua Gilpin, Esq., Kentmere, Delaware: the life and writings of a country gentleman
… in Philadelphia, or the English country gentleman, whose leisure allowed him time for the arts, writing, extensive travel and public service. Gilpin was a business leader of his community and knew many of the important men of the era in and out of Delaware. A biography of Joshua Gilpin …
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The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, the Expression of Pope's Ideal of the Gentleman
… is less important than one's position as a gentleman." That Pone himself considered the Epistle his Apologia is indicated in his correspondence with Dr. Arbuthnot. After thanking the doctor for his advice concerning satire. Pope writes: I "determined to address to</p> <p>you one of my …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… functioned as a formal recourse to attacks on a gentleman's reputation. Concurrently, many notable literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a …
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
<p>In this dissertation I explore the way in which visual and literary representations of gout in British literature and popular culture during the period 1744-1826 evince anxieties regarding over-consumption, particularly in relation to imperial expansion. I argue that the prevalence of gout in …
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A Stage for Gentility and the Performance of the Republican Gentleman: Taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820
… 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 gentility. This thesis analyzes how Richmond taverns represented the growth of gentility through refined architecture and …
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN
… structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman—the poster boy for eighteenth-century society’s moral, masculine, and patriarchal values—and thereby advocating for novels as an important site for cultivating proper masculine behavior as well as a means of renegotiating gender …
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: Honour and Dishonour in the Court Martial Records of the Marines Ashore, 1783-1793
… the charge ‘conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman’, in constructing behaviour which was considered as either honourable or dishonourable. A focus on this type of behaviour, and more importantly on transgressions of ideal behaviour, within the brotherhood of the officer corps can …
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The beginnings, ends, and aims of a gentleman's education : an exegesis of Locke's Some thoughts concerning education.
… should go about educating their children for the gentleman's calling. This thesis considers the following questions about Locke's text: what is the beginning, or original, condition of the student in the Thoughts, what is the student's final condition or the aim of the education, what does Locke …
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The drawing books of Henry Peacham and Jan de Bisschop and the place of drawing in the education of a Renaissance gentleman
The focus of my study are the drawing books of Henry Peacham and Jan de Bisschop, amateur draughtsmen of the seventeenth century. They worked in hostile environments and tried to persuade their countrymen of the validity of the classical tradition in art.
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… time, he exemplified the antebellum. Southern gentleman by becoming a good-farmer equivalent of the good-planter, by continuing the horticultural tradition of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and by serving the Commonwealth as governor from a sense of responsibility which had been …
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Architecture, A Public Engagement with: Purpose, Poetry, Place, Prospect, Program, Principle, Process
… and composition as it takes on the aspect of a gentleman.
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Fashioning Men of Fashion: The Fop and the Transformation of Eighteenth -Century Masculinity
… personified in a concept I have called the Sober Gentleman of Merit. This figure eventually came to replace the dominant version of masculinity promulgated by aristocrats, other like-minded elites, and their adherents. Representations of negative stereotypes of aristocratic masculinity were used …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
… by dual identity of a man as an officer and a gentleman. Within the martial justice context, examining the nature of officers’ crimes and misbehavior provides historians with the opportunity to explore the boundaries of acceptable forms of gentlemanliness. Perceptions of what exactly …
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Republican Fictions in Search of an Audience: The Works of Charles Brockden Brown
… made possible by common educations and values of gentleman readers. Elements of both models of writing coexist in Brown's work and create significant dissonances in it. Early reviews of Brown's works, however, reveal that his enduring reputation was and is largely based on the literary standards …
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The Australian museum library - its formation, function and scientific contribution, 1836–1917
… influence, in the nineteenth century, from the gentleman scientist to the university–trained professional are not well known and will be explored. This is a study of the history of books and their readers and consists of a combination of narrative chapters, biographical and bibliographical case …
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