Disorderly Families

Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Disorderly Families -- Introduction -- 1. Marital Discord -- LETTERS -- Households in Ruin -- The Imprisonment of Wives -- The Debauchery of Husbands -- The Tale of a Request -- 2. Parents and Children -- LETTERS -- The Disruption of Affairs -- Shameful Concubinage -- The Dishonor of Waywardness -- Domestic Violence -- Bad Apprentices -- Exiles -- Family Honor -- Parental Ethos, 1728: The Rationale for Sentiment -- Parental Ethos, 1758: The Duty to Educate -- 3. When Addressing the King -- Afterword to the English Edition -- Arlette Farge -- Notes -- Glossary of Places -- B -- C -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- S -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z