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Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England / Donna T. Andrew.
LIBRA HN400.M6 A53 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrew, Donna T., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vices.
- History.
- Upper class.
- Conduct of life.
- Great Britain--Moral conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Moral conditions.
- England--Social life and customs--18th century.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Upper class--England--Conduct of life--History--18th century.
- Vices--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the middle way: cultural skirmishes
- Contesting cultural authority: the code of honor and its critics
- "That wild decision of the private sword"
- Against "nature, religion and good manners": debating suicide
- "The chief topics of conversation": adultery and divorce in the Bon Ton
- Deserving "most the cognizance of the magistrate and the censor": combating gaming
- Vice in an age of respectability
- Conclusion: an end to aristocratic vice?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300184334
- 0300184336
- OCLC:
- 813921358
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