eighteenth-century notions of the gentleman/male gentility

[THERESE M GYAUCH]

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Subject: 18th-century gentleman

Professor Berland suggested that I direct this question to the
bulletin board.

Is there a book comparable to Robin Gilmour's The Idea of the Victorian
Gentlemen in the eighteenth-century canon about eighteenth-century male
gentility? (Are there any more recent or forthcoming journal articles
for which I might want to watch?)

(I have been working with Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague and
exploring the ways that she is "re-making"/transforming the idea of "a
gentleman" and "gentility" in the novel. I have looked at the ways that she
plays with sentimentality in the novel as one point of reference.)

Thank you in advance for whatever suggestions you can offer.

Therese Marie Gyauch
TM...@LEHIGH.EDU

[Kevin Berland]

I'd recommend that you take a look at The Whole Duty of Man, a vastly
influential and widely published book that pretty well sums up what the
early 18th-century Christian Gentleman was supposed to be like... though
its 1st publication was much earlier, it was certainly still in print and
still influential by the time Brooke was writing -- and is especially
relevant since Brooke writes about the ideal *Anglican* sensible
gentleman.

Cheers,
Kevin Berland

[Paul Turnbull]

One could do a lot worse than Paul Langford's encyclopaedic * Public Life
and the Propertied Englishman *

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