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Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, Toni, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Seduction in literature--History--17th century.
- Seduction in literature.
- Women in literature--History--18th century.
- Women in literature.
- Authority in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Force or fraud
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191725340 (ebook) :
- 019172534X (ebook) :
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