Force or fraud
Subtitle: British seduction stories and the problem of resistance, 1660-1760
By: Toni Bowers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780199592135
Subjects: History; Seduction in literature; English fiction; Authority in literature; Literature and morals; Women in literature; History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Bridge : modulating Tory sensibility. Tory sensibilities old and new : The perils of false brethren and Passive obedience; title: 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; title: Coda : after the Jacobites. Sir Charles Grandison and late eighteenth-century seduction fiction.