TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew,Donna T.
TI  - Aristocratic vice: the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England 
SN  - 9780300185522
AV  - HN400.M6 A53 2013eb
U1  - 305.5/20941 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Upper class
KW  - England
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Vices
KW  - Classes supérieures
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Morale pratique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Social Classes
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=592058
ER  -