Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760
Bowers, ToniAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English fiction
English fiction
Seduction in literature
Women in literature
Authority in literature
Literature and morals
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