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Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Matthew J. Kinservik
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Description for Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Hardcover. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403979926
SKU
V9781403979926
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About Matthew J. Kinservik
MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA.
Reviews for Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England
"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 ... Read more