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The first systematic study of the concept of shame from 1600-1900, showing good and bad behaviour, morality and perceptions of crime in British society at large. Single episodes in the history of shame are contextualized by discussing the historiography and theory of shame and their implications for the history of crime and social relations.
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Table of contents
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- Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- 1 The History and Theory of Shame â Then and Now
- 2 Private Passions and Public Penance: Popular Shaming Rituals in Pre-Modern Britain
- 3 The Shame and Fame of âHalf-Hangit Maggieâ: Attitudes to the Child Murderer in Early Modern Scotland
- 4 âTo Make Men of their Honesty Afraidâ: Shaming the Ideological Dissident 1650â1834
- 5 Conservatives, Humanitarians and Reformers Debate Shame
- 6 The Everyday Life of a Wexford Parson: The Rev. William Hughesâ Taste for Drink, Blasphemy, Indecent Exposure, Criminal
- 7 âThe Woman in the Iron maskâ: From Low Life Picaresque to Bourgeois Tragedy â Matrimonial Violence and the Audiences for
- 8 Writing âCuckold on the Forehead of a Dozen Husbandsâ: Mid-Victorian Monarchy and the Construction of Bourgeois Shame
- 9 Conclusion: Reconciling Shame with Modernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index