Title The seduction narrative in Britain, 1747-1800 / Katherine Binhammer

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Seduction in literature. Love in literature. Women in literature. Feminism in literature. Seduction -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Love -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Feminism in literature Love Love in literature Seduction Seduction in literature Women Women in literature Literatur Verführung Motiv Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511635045 0511635044 9780521111348 052111134X 0511635494 9780511635496

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