| 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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-346) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010935316 |
| ISBN | 9780199592135 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199592136 (hbk.) |
