Re-enacting gentility on London's comic stage during the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
The basic aim of the thesis has been to investigate what it meant to claim gentility, the status of a 'gentleman' or 'gentlewoman', in early modern England. Arguing that gentility should be viewed as a highly contingent socio-political rhetoric, the study concentrates on how that...
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University of Cambridge
2001
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598426 |