Ebook: Aristocratic vice the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England
Author: Andrew Donna T
- Tags: Sozialgeschichte 1700-1800, Adel, Manners and customs, Moral, Moral conditions, Presse, Upper class--Conduct of life, Upper class--England--Conduct of life--History--18th century, Vices, Vices--History--18th century, History, Upper class -- England -- Conduct of life -- History -- 18th century, Vices -- History -- 18th century, Great Britain -- Moral conditions, England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century, Upper class -- Conduct of life, England, Great Britain
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: England;Great Britain;New Haven;Conn
- Language: English
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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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