Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England de M. Kinservik

Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England: The New Middle Ages

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 2008

This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776. Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the duchess's state trial for bigamy and Foote's criminal trial for attempted sodomy engrossed the attention of Londoners, including George III, Parliament, and the nobility. Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity offers specialists and general readers a meticulously researched and dramatic narrative that relates the fortunes and misfortunes of its protagonists and exposes the social and legal hypocrisies about love, sex, and marriage in the age of George III.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403979926
ISBN-10: 1403979928
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: XI, 250 p. 3 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria The New Middle Ages

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

15 April 1776 Disgracing her Grace The Clandestine Marriage Marriage a la Mode The Siren's Voice Noble Prospects Jactitation of Marriage Exit the Duke Enter the Actor Trial of Bigamy The Proxy War Trial for Attempted Sodomy Exiles I, Libertine

Recenzii

"This book offers an interesting, highly readable, in-depth and complete story of the context and events leading up to the trial of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy. It benefits from impressive archival scholarship and it brings together many different vaguely familiar events in the late eighteenth century-the Kingston trial, the Foote scandal, the transformation in the meaning of marriage-and shows in considerable and surprising detail their interconnections. This book captures a significant set of cultural events and will certainly have an impact of the study of the cultural politics of the late 18th century." - Laura Rosenthal, Professor of English, University of Maryland

Notă biografică

MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA.

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