Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England
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ISBN-13:
9781403979926
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.04.2008
Seiten:
250
Autor:
M. Kinservik
Gewicht:
413 g
Format:
203x154x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY : This book will have appeal in gender studies, literature and theater studies, and to history scholars and sociologists
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
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