Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /: the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donna T. Andrew.
• Authors: Andrew, Donna T, 1945-
• 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?
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Subjects: 305.5/20941; Upper class -- England -- Conduct of life -- History -- 18th century; Vices -- History -- 18th century; Classes supérieures -- Angleterre -- Morale pratique -- Histoire -- 18e siècle; Vices -- Histoire -- 18e siècle; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes; HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain; Manners and customs; Moral conditions; Upper class -- Conduct of life; Vices; Great Britain -- Moral conditions; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle; England; Great Britain; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300185522; 0300185529
• Related ISBNs: 9780300184334; 0300184336
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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