Vice and the Victorians /
"Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, ha...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The problem of vice
- The cultural geography of vice
- The demon drink
- The betting evil
- Sexual vices
- Fighting the good fight
- Respectability
- Epilogue
- Suggestions for further reading.