Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /
Andrew, Donna T., 1945-
Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England / Donna T. Andrew. - 1 online resource (318 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.
English.
9780300185522 (electronic book) 0300185529 (electronic book) (cloth) (cloth)
10.12987/9780300185522 doi
22573/ctt2zxxbb JSTOR A417F911-C96F-4233-BD0B-ED7DDD40240B OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2012041362
1700-1799
Upper class--Conduct of life--History--England--18th century.
Vices--History--18th century.
Classes supérieures--Morale pratique--Histoire--Angleterre--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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
HN400.M6 / A53 2013eb
305.5/20941
Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England / Donna T. Andrew. - 1 online resource (318 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.
English.
9780300185522 (electronic book) 0300185529 (electronic book) (cloth) (cloth)
10.12987/9780300185522 doi
22573/ctt2zxxbb JSTOR A417F911-C96F-4233-BD0B-ED7DDD40240B OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2012041362
1700-1799
Upper class--Conduct of life--History--England--18th century.
Vices--History--18th century.
Classes supérieures--Morale pratique--Histoire--Angleterre--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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
HN400.M6 / A53 2013eb
305.5/20941