Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /
This title examines the outrage against -- and attempts to end -- the four vices associated with the artistocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four it was commonly believed, owed their origin to pride.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Table of 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?