04210nam 22009975 450 991097009810332120240307131437.09786611363246978128136324412813632439780230604803023060480310.1057/9780230604803(CKB)1000000000342401(EBL)308138(OCoLC)560442292(SSID)ssj0000284095(PQKBManifestationID)11912572(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284095(PQKBWorkID)10251473(PQKB)10748657(SSID)ssj0001660778(PQKBManifestationID)16442098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660778(PQKBWorkID)14987021(PQKB)11369726(DE-He213)978-0-230-60480-3(MiAaPQ)EBC308138(Au-PeEL)EBL308138(CaPaEBR)ebr10194078(CaONFJC)MIL136324(Perlego)3501441(EXLCZ)99100000000034240120151207d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England /by M. Kinservik1st ed. 2007.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (263 p.)The New Middle Ages,2945-5944Description based upon print version of record.9781349538546 134953854X 9781403979926 1403979928 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Works Frequently Cited; A Note on Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 15 April 1776; Chapter 1 Disgracing Her Grace; Chapter 2 The Clandestine Marriage; Chapter 3 Marriage à la Mode; Chapter 4 The Siren's Voice; Chapter 5 Noble Prospects; Chapter 6 Jactitation of Marriage; Chapter 7 Exit the Duke; Chapter 8 Enter the Actor; Chapter 9 Trial for Bigamy; Chapter 10 The Proxy War; Chapter 11 Trial for Attempted Sodomy; Chapter 12 Exiles; Epilogue: I, Libertine; Sources; Notes; IndexThis 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.The New Middle Ages,2945-5944SexLiterature, MedievalLiteratureGreat BritainHistoryEuropean literatureLiterature, Modern18th centuryGender StudiesMedieval LiteratureLiteratureHistory of Britain and IrelandEuropean LiteratureEighteenth-Century LiteratureSex.Literature, Medieval.Literature.Great BritainHistory.European literature.Literature, ModernGender Studies.Medieval Literature.Literature.History of Britain and Ireland.European Literature.Eighteenth-Century Literature.364.1/83092Kinservik Matthew J.1967-1792179MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970098103321Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England4330385UNINA