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" Aristocratic vice : "
Donna T. Andrew
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BL
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582324
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b411543
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| Main Entry
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Andrew, Donna T.,1945-
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| Title & Author
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Aristocratic vice : : the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /\ Donna T. Andrew
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x, 318 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780300184334
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: 0300184336
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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?
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Examines the outrage against, and attempts to end, the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th-century England, exploring treatment by the press and showing how public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of moral superiority among the emerging middle class
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Upper class-- England-- Conduct of life-- History-- 18th century
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Vices-- History-- 18th century
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Great Britain, Moral conditions
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England, Social life and customs, 18th century
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| Dewey Classification
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305.5/20941
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HN400.M6A53 2013
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