The seduction narrative in Britain, 1747-1800
By: Katherine Binhammer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521111348
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Seduction in literature; Love in literature; Women in literature; Feminism in literature; Seduction -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Love -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Description: "... Surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives. Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory, Binhammer argues that seduction narrative allowed writers to explore different fates for the heroine from the domesticity that became the dominant form in later literature."--Inside cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Knowing love : the epistemology of Clarissa; title: The whore's love or the Magdalen's seduction; title: After knowledge : married heroines and seduction; title: Seduction in street literature; title: Melodramatic seduction : 1790's fiction and the excess of the real.