Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747-1800

Klappentext This book explores how stories of seduction were told in novels, memoirs, ballads, essays and miscellanies. Zusammenfassung The seduction of a virtuous young heroine was an immensely popular plot in eighteenth-century literature! most famously in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. This book surveys seduction narratives 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Knowing love: the epistemology of Clarissa; 2. The whore's love or the Magdalen's seduction; 3. After knowledge: married heroines and seduction; 4. Seduction in street literature; 5. Melodramatic seduction: 1790s fiction and the excess of the real; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Katherine Binhammer, Katherine (University of Alberta) Binhammer, Binhammer Katherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107411500
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41150-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender Studies: Men