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

By:

Andrew, Donna T, 1945- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300185522
0300185529

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aristocratic vice.DDC classification:

305.5/20941 23

LOC classification:

HN400.M6 A53 2013eb

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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?

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.