Toni Bowers

Force or Fraud

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tell 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780199592135
• ISBN-10: 0199592136
• Artikelnr.: 31188916

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: 'Force or Fraud'?
* Part I: Passive Obedience: Seduction Paradigms and Old-Tory
Mythmaking
* 1: Seduction Stories in Seventeenth-Century Literary History
* 2: The Problem of Resistance in Old-Tory Ideology: Passive Obedience,
Seduction Plots, and the Five Love-Letters
* 3: Seduction and Sedition: James, Duke of Monmouth and
Seduction-Story Paradigms
* 4: Seduction and Resistance in the 1680s: Behn's Love-Letters Between
a Nobleman and His Sister
* 5: Tory Sensibilities Old and New: The Perils of False Brethren and
Passive Obedience
* Part II: Collusive Resistance: Seduction Stories and New-Tory Virtue
* 6: The Problem of Collusion: Manley's The New Atalantis
* 7: Constructing Scandalous Virtue: The Adventures of Rivella and Two
Perjur'd Beauties
* 8: Making a Virtue of Complicity: Haywood's Scandal Fiction
* 9: Collusive Resistance and Complicit Virtue in the 1740s:
Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa
* Epilogue: After the Jacobites: Sir Charles Grandison and Late
Eighteenth-Century Seduction Fiction