Cultures of shame
Subtitle: exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900
By: David Nash, Anne-Marie Kilday
Contributors: Kilday, Anne-Marie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230525702
Subjects: Moral conditions; History; Conduct of life; Punishment; Shame
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: The history and theory of shame, then and now; title: Private passions and public penance: popular shaming rituals in pre-modern Britain; title: The shame and fame of 'Half-Hangit Maggie': attitudes to the child murderer in early modern Scotland; title: 'To make men of their honesty afraid': shaming the ideological dissident 1650-1834; title: Conservatives, humanitarians, and reformers debate shame; title: The everyday life of a Wexford parson: the Rev. William Hughes' taste for drink, blasphemy, indecent exposure, criminal damage, bestial voyeurism and field sports; title: 'The woman in the iron mask': from low life picaresque to bourgeois tragedy, matrimonial violence and the audiences of shame; title: Writing 'cuckold on the forehead of a dozen husbands': mid-Victorian monarchy and the construction of bourgeois shame; title: Conclusion: reconciling shame with modernity.