Title: Force or fraud
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.
Subjects: History, Seduction in literature, English fiction, Authority in literature, Literature and morals, Women in literature, History and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Vrouwen, Gezag, Verleiding, Bellettrie, Engels, Moraal
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 18th century