Guarding Life's Dark Secrets : Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy

Acknowledgments ix The General Argument 1(21) Status and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century 22(19) Sticks and Stones: The Law of Defamation 41(22) The Victorian Compromise: Slippage and Control in the Moral Laws 63(18) The Anatomy of Blackmail 81(20) Good Women, Bad Women: Seduction, Breach of Promise, and Related Matters 101(39) Censorship: Its Rise and Fall 140(35) Into the Twentieth Century 175(38) Privacy and Reputation in the Late Twentieth Century 213(22) Defamation in Contemporary Times 235(22) A Summing Up---And a Cautious Look at the Future 257(16) Notes 273(58) Index 331