The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

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.

• | By (Author): Evelyn Lord
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0300164025
• | ISBN-13: 9780300164022