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Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England

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This title examines the outrage against - and attempts to end - the four vices associated with the artistocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling.

All four it was commonly believed, owed their origin to pride.

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Product Details
Yale University Press
0300185529 / 9780300185522
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
02/09/2013
English
384 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 11, 2013).