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Author Andrew, Donna T., 1945-

Title Aristocratic vice : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England / Donna T. Andrew.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Summary 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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Subject Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
Great Britain.
Moral conditions.
England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
England.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Upper class -- England -- Conduct of life -- History -- 18th century.
Upper class.
Conduct of life.
History.
Vices -- History -- 18th century.
Vices.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Andrew, Donna T., 1945- Aristocratic vice. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] 9780300184334 (DLC) 2012041362 (OCoLC)813921358
ISBN 9780300185522 (electronic book)
0300185529 (electronic book)
9780300184334
0300184336

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