The history and theory of shame, then and now
Private passions and public penance: popular shaming rituals in pre-modern Britain
The shame and fame of 'Half-Hangit Maggie': attitudes to the child murderer in early modern Scotland
'To make men of their honesty afraid': shaming the ideological dissident 1650-1834
Conservatives, humanitarians, and reformers debate shame
The everyday life of a Wexford parson: the Rev. William Hughes' taste for drink, blasphemy, indecent exposure, criminal damage, bestial voyeurism and field sports
'The woman in the iron mask': from low life picaresque to bourgeois tragedy, matrimonial violence and the audiences of shame
Writing 'cuckold on the forehead of a dozen husbands': mid-Victorian monarchy and the construction of bourgeois shame
Conclusion: reconciling shame with modernity.
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Cultures of shame : exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900 by David Nash. ISBN 9780230525702. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
