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Cultures of shame

exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900

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An edition of Cultures of shame (2010)

Cultures of shame

exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
244

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Cultures of shame: exploring crime and morality in Britain 1600-1900
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

The history and theory of shame, then and now
Private passions and public penance: popular shaming rituals in pre-modern Britain
The shame and fame of 'Half-Hangit Maggie': attitudes to the child murderer in early modern Scotland
'To make men of their honesty afraid': shaming the ideological dissident 1650-1834
Conservatives, humanitarians, and reformers debate shame
The everyday life of a Wexford parson: the Rev. William Hughes' taste for drink, blasphemy, indecent exposure, criminal damage, bestial voyeurism and field sports
'The woman in the iron mask': from low life picaresque to bourgeois tragedy, matrimonial violence and the audiences of shame
Writing 'cuckold on the forehead of a dozen husbands': mid-Victorian monarchy and the construction of bourgeois shame
Conclusion: reconciling shame with modernity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.5/4
Library of Congress
HN400.M6 N37 2010, DA1-DA995HN8-HN19CB3

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 244 p. :
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25022915M
Internet Archive
culturesshameexp00nash
ISBN 10
0230525709
ISBN 13
9780230525702
LCCN
2010027544
OCLC/WorldCat
635463622

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