Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Donna T. Andrew
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?.
年:
2013
出版社:
Yale University Press
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
0300184336
ISBN 13:
9780300184334
文件:
EPUB, 3.31 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013