Sex, money & personal character in eighteenth-century British politics /
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political aren...
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| Language: | English |
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[New Haven, CT] :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Political and the Personal
- 2. Politics of Personal Character
- 3. Measure of Men
- 4. Court, Courtship and Domestic Virtue
- 5. Ethics of Fashion, Spending, Credit and Debt
- 6. Views from the Peripheries of the Political World
- 7. Persistence of Casuistry.
