Chapter 1 The History and Theory of Shame — Then and Now

Chapter 2 Private Passions and Public Penance: Popular Shaming Rituals in Pre-Modern Britain

Chapter 3 The Shame and Fame of ‘Half-Hangit Maggie’: Attitudes to the Child Murderer in Early Modern Scotland

Chapter 4 ‘To Make Men of their Honesty Afraid’: Shaming the Ideological Dissident 1650–1834

Chapter 6 The Everyday Life of a Wexford Parson: The Rev. William Hughes’ Taste for Drink, Blasphemy, Indecent Exposure, Criminal Damage, Bestial Voyeurism and Field Sports

Chapter 7 ‘The Woman in the Iron mask’: From Low Life Picaresque to Bourgeois Tragedy — Matrimonial Violence and the Audiences for Shame

Chapter 8 Writing ‘Cuckold on the Forehead of a Dozen Husbands’: Mid-Victorian Monarchy and the Construction of Bourgeois Shame

Chapter 9 Conclusion: Reconciling Shame with Modernity