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1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index. |
| Contents |
Knowing love : the epistemology of Clarissa -- The whore's love or the Magdalen's seduction -- After knowledge : married heroines and seduction -- Seduction in street literature -- Melodramatic seduction : 1790's fiction and the excess of the real. |
| Summary |
Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in their lovers' vows. In this book Katherine Binhammer surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying st. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Seduction in literature.
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Seduction in literature. |
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Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Feminism in literature.
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Feminism in literature. |
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Seduction -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Seduction. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Love -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Love. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1747-1800 |
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1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Seduction. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Binhammer, Katherine, 1962- Seduction narrative in Britain, 1747-1800. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521111348 (DLC) 2009011371 (OCoLC)317383443 |
| ISBN |
9780511635045 (electronic book) |
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0511635044 (electronic book) |
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9780521111348 (hardback) |
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052111134X (hardback) |
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0511635494 (electronic book) |
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9780511635496 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9786612336850 |
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