عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
HN400.M6 A53 2013
HN400
.
M6
A53
2013
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0300184336
(Number (ISBN
9780300184334
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b411543
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Aristocratic vice :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the attack on duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling in eighteenth-century England /
First Statement of Responsibility
Donna T. Andrew
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 318 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Upper class-- England-- Conduct of life-- History-- 18th century
Vices-- History-- 18th century
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England, Social life and customs, 18th century
Great Britain, Moral conditions
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
305
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5/20941
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HN400
.
M6
Book number
A53
2013
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Andrew, Donna T.,1945-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20131108000000.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
