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Author:

Andrew, Donna T., 1945-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject:

Great Britain--Moral conditions.
England--Social life and customs--18th century.
Upper class--England--History--History--18th century.
Vices--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

ISBN:

0300184336 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300184334 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)813921358

LCCN:

2012041362

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)