| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Passive obedience : seduction paradigms and old-Tory mythmaking. Seduction stories in seventeenth-century literary history ; The problem of resistance in old-Tory ideology : passive obedience, seduction plots, and the Five love-letters ; Seduction and sedition : James, Duke of Monmouth and seduction-story paradigms ; Seduction and resistance : Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister -- Bridge : modulating Tory sensibility. Tory sensibilities old and new : The perils of false brethren and Passive obedience -- Collusive resistance : seduction stories and new-Tory vitrue. The problem of collusion : Manley's The new Atalantis ; Constructing scandalous virtue : The adventures of Rivella and two Perjur'd beauties ; Making a virtue of complicity : Haywood's scandal fiction ; Collusive resistance and complicit virtue : Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa -- Coda : after the Jacobites. Sir Charles Grandison and late eighteenth-century seduction fiction |
| Summary |
This text tells the story of how rape and seduction came to be distinguished according to measures of women's resistance and consent in low-brow 'amatory' writing, by writers such as Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Samuel Richardson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2020) |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Seduction in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Authority in literature.
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Literature and morals -- History -- 17th century
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Literature and morals -- History -- 18th century
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English fiction -- Early modern
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Authority in literature
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English fiction
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Literature and morals
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Seduction in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191725340 |
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019172534X |
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