The Hell-Fire clubs
Subtitle: sex, Satanism and secret societies
By: Evelyn Lord.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780300116670
Subjects: Hell Fire Club (Medmenham, England); England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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: The grand tour, dilettantes 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.