Profligate Son

Profligate Son

Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England

Phillips, Nicola (Lecturer in History, Kingston University)

Oxford University Press

10/2015

352

Mole

Inglês

9780199687541

15 a 20 dias

The dramatic and moving story of a Regency rake's descent into depravity and crime - via the exuberantly hedonistic and murky underworld of late Georgian England.
Introduction: The Profligate Heir ; 1. The Sins of the Father ; 2. An Improper Education ; 3. Lessons in Love and Life in London ; 4. An Officer and a Gentleman ; 5. Boarding The Fleet ; 6. To the Brink of Destruction ; 7. A Mansion of Misery ; 8. Cheltenham and Gloucester Unmasked ; 9. Retribution ; 10. A Contagious Distemper ; 11. Of Gentlemen and Convicts ; 12. Ruined Suitors ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index
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