Andrew, Donna T.,  1945- <br/><br/>
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.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300185522 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Upper class--Conduct of life--History--England--18th century.<br/>Vices--History--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN400  / .A757 2013