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The Hell-Fire clubs : sex, Satanism and secret societies / Evelyn Lord.
LIBRA DA485 .L67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lord, Evelyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hell Fire Club (Medmenham, England).
- England--Social life and customs--18th century.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 247 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Prelude to the fires of hell
- Gentlemen's clubs, journalistic hacks, the mohocks and change
- The Hell-Fire clubs
- Interlude abroad : the grand tour, dilettanti and divans
- The Medmenham friars
- Essay on woman : the friars exposed
- Public men and private vices
- Scotland and the fires of hell
- Beefsteaks, demoniacs, dalkey, colonial America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300116675
- 9780300116670
- OCLC:
- 223870284
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