The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then religious blasphemy, and later sexual indulgence.


Format Häftad Omfång 250 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Yale University Press Utgivningsdatum 2010-03-15 ISBN 9780300164022