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Aristocratic Vice - The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocratic Vice - The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against-and attempts to
end-the four vices associated with the aristocracy in
eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and
gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its
origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough to punish
those perpetrators who were members of the elite. In this exciting
new book, Andrew explores each vice's treatment by the press at the
time and shows how a century of public attacks on aristocratic
vices promoted a sense of "class superiority" among the
soon-to-emerge British middle class. "Donna Andrew continues to
illuminate the mental landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. . .
. No historian of the period has made greater or more effective use
of the newspaper press as a source for cultural history than she.
This book is evidently the product of a great deal of work and is
likely to stimulate further work."-Joanna Innes, University of
Oxford
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