“That Code Which has no Impugners”: Towards the Question of Honesty of a Gentleman in the Victorian Age
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“That Code Which has no Impugners”: Towards the Question of Honesty of a Gentleman in the Victorian Age
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Aleksei Davidenko 
Affiliation: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Address: Russian Federation, Kaliningrad
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The article deals with the question of honesty of a gentleman in the Victorian age. The author uses a range of sources in order to verify an opinion accepted in historiography that the Victorian era conventional code of honour prescribed gentlemen to be honest in respect to people of their exclusive circle. The examination of conduct books and etiquette manuals, which set the regulatory framework for gentlemanly behavior, as well as the Victorian press and slang dictionaries allows the author to come to a preliminary conclusion that the code did not restricted gentlemen in their display of honesty towards ordinary Britons. Victorian newspapers and dictionaries contain examples that indirectly indicate that commoners tended to trust gentlemen.
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gentleman, code of a gentleman, Victorian age, honesty, conduct books, Victorian press
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12.06.2018
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30.10.2018
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