Author: Douglas SutherlandPublisher: Cliffs Notes
ISBN: 9780905649238
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The English Gentleman's Wife
Author: Douglas SutherlandPublisher: Cliffs Notes
ISBN: 9780905649238
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The English Gentleman
Author: Douglas SutherlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781853754180
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: Christine BerberichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131702785X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
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.
The English Gentleman Merchant at Work
Author: Søren MentzPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772899091
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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.
The English Gentleman; and the English Gentlevvoman: Both in One Volume Couched, and in One Modell Portrayed: to the Living Glory of Their Sexe, the Lasting Story of Their Worth. Being Presented to Present Times for Ornaments; Commended to Posterity for Presidents. With a Ladies-love Lecture, and a Supplement Lately Annexed, and Entituled The Turtle's Triumph ... by Richard Brathvvait Esq
Author: Richard BrathwaiteThe English Gentleman Justified
Author: The Devil is an English Gentleman
Author: John CournosTHE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
Author: Richard BrathwaiteDisney's British Gentleman
Author: Nathan MorleyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750997575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
'A wonderful account of a life filled with far more ups and downs than its subject's languid demeanour ever suggested.' Miles Jupp. Even if the name doesn't ring a bell, you'd recognise David Tomlinson's face – genial and continually perplexed, he was Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, Professor Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. To many, he's the epitome of post-war British comedy. But at times his life was more tragedy than comedy. A distinguished RAF pilot in the Second World War, his first marriage was to end in horrific tragedy and his next romance ended with his lover marrying the founder of the American Nazi Party. He did find love and security in his second marriage, but drama still played its part in his life – from the uncovering of an earthshattering family secret to the fight for an autism diagnosis for his son, up against the titans of the British medical establishment. Tomlinson may have died over twenty years ago, but his star continues to shine. In Disney's British Gentleman, Nathan Morley reveals the remarkable story of one of Disney's most beloved icons for the very first time.
The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature
Author: Dr Christine BerberichPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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.