Introduction: The Middle Way: Cultural Skirmishes
1 Contesting Cultural Authority: The Code of Honor and Its Critics
2 “That Wild Decision of the Private Sword”
3 Against “Nature, Religion and Good Manners”: Debating Suicide
4 “The Chief Topics of Conversation”: Adultery and Divorce in the Bon Ton
5 Deserving “Most the Cognizance of the Magistrate and the Censor”: Combating Gaming
6 Vice in an Age of Respectability