Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /

This title examines the outrage against -- and attempts to end -- the four vices associated with the artistocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four it was commonly believed, owed their origin to pride.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Andrew, Donna T., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Upper class > England > Conduct of life > History > 18th century.
Vices > History > 18th century.
Classes supérieures > Angleterre > Morale pratique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Vices > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Manners and customs.
Moral conditions.
Upper class > Conduct of life.
Vices.
Great Britain > Moral conditions.
England > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 18e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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