… But the Case is very different with these inferior Masquerades; for these are indeed no other than the Temples of Drunkenness, Lewdness, and all Kind of Debauchery. 2 As Terry Castle notes, mentions of masquerades for the lower classes …
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Gentleman
[ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… , advised readers to aim for goodwill, sincerity and honesty in conversation in society, and to avoid disputation, drunkenness, coarseness, and lewd language. The link to middling-sort lives and values as explored by Margaret Hunt was …
… The gin palace was like a machine which enabled people to get drunk in industrial quantities. A Select Committee on Drunkenness , set up by Sheffield MP James Silk Buckingham, heard testimony to this effect in the summer of 1834. And …
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Conviviality
[ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
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… the rise of a public debate about the elites and their moral shortcomings. Adultery, prostitution, excessive gambling, drunkenness: there is a considerable amount of prints dedicated to the dark side of aristocratic sociability. 13 A few …