Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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MIL
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233685
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Title
Seduction narrative in Britain, 1747-1800.
International Standard Book Number
9780521111348
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.
Love-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Love in literature.
Seduction-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.