Aristocratic Vice
Subtitle: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780300184334
Subjects: Aristocracy (social class); Social classes, great britain; Vice
Description: 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.