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Cultures of Shame

Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1600-1900

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9781349357949
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The first systematic study of the concept of shame from 1600-1900, showing good and bad behaviour, morality and perceptions of crime in British society at large. Single episodes in the history of shame are contextualized by discussing the historiography and theory of shame and their implications for the history of crime and social relations.

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ISBN13:9781349357949
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 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 for Shame 'Writing Cuckold on the Forehead of a Dozen Husbands': Mid-Victorian Monarchy and the Construction of Bourgeois Shame Conclusion: Reconciling Shame with Modernity Bibliography

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