Force or fraud: british seduction stories and the problem of resistance, 1660-1760

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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959213-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés