The Hell-Fire clubs
Subtitle: sex, Satanism and secret societies
By: Evelyn Lord
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780300116670
Subjects: Hell Fire Club (Medmenham, England); Social life and customs; Geheimbund; Medmenham / Kloster
Description: Lord sets aside the gossip about the Hell-Fire Clubs-- orgies, prostitutes, erotica, extreme initiation ceremonies-- in order to paint an accurate portrait of their membership, their beliefs and activities, and the reasons for their proliferation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude to the fires of hell; title: Gentlemen's clubs, journalistic hacks, the mohocks and change; title: The Hell-Fire clubs; title: Interlude abroad : the grand tour, dilettanti and divans; title: The Medmenham friars; title: Essay on woman : the friars exposed; title: Public men and private vices; title: Scotland and the fires of hell; title: Beefsteaks, demoniacs, dalkey, colonial America.