Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England

Publication Data

• Title Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England
• Author Donna T. Andrew
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location New Haven
• Language English

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?

Topics

• Upper class :: England :: Conduct of life :: History :: 18th century
• Vices :: History :: 18th century
• Great Britain :: Moral conditions
• England :: Social life and customs :: 18th century
• Great Britain
• England

Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England by Donna T. Andrew. ISBN 9780300184334. Published by Yale University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.