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. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies 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?
9780300185522
Upper class--Conduct of life--History--England--18th century.
Vices--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
HN400 / .A757 2013
Aristocratic vice the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England / Donna T. Andrew. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies 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?
9780300185522
Upper class--Conduct of life--History--England--18th century.
Vices--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
HN400 / .A757 2013