Guarding life's dark secrets: legal and social controls over reputation, propriety, and privacy

Abstract

Contents: Acknowledgments xxx Chapter One Our General Argument 000 Chapter Two Status and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century 000 Chapter Three Sticks and Stones: The Law of Defamation 000 Chapter Four The Victorian Compromise: Slippage and Control in the Moral Laws 000 Chapter Five The Anatomy of Blackmail 000 Chapter Six Good Women, Bad Women: Seduction, Breach of Promise and Related Matters 000 Chapter Seven Censorship: Its Rise and Fall 000 Chapter Eight Into the Twentieth Century 000 Chapter Nine Privacy and Reputation in the Late Twentieth Century 000 Chapter Ten Defamation in Contemporary Times 000 Chapter Eleven A Summing Up: And a Cautious Look at the Future 000 Notes 000 Index 000

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