Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
(Book #5 in the Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series)
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Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. We should conceive of gentility as a mutable process of social delineation. Gentility was a matter of power and language; cultural definition and social...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521848091
ISBN13:9780521848091
Release Date:July 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:318 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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