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Force or Fraud
By Toni Bowers
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Description
The amatory tales of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Samuel Richardson - early pioneers in British prose fiction - were immensely popular in their day. But they were also scandalous and controversial, not least because they so often depicted innocent young women under assault from men in positions of legitimate authority over them. Focusing on an ideologically-inflected strategy it calls "collusive resistance," Force or Fraud uncovers the paradoxical means by which formulaic late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century seduction stories wielded a surprising degree of power and influence - not only over female imaginations, publication lists, and leisure time, but also over the interpretation of one of the age's most troubling problems, the problem of constructing virtuous resistance to those in authority. Stories about the ambiguous seductions of young women helped British political subjects negotiate a period of dramatic change and uncertainty, and to imagine newly legitimate forms of resistance.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
382
Release Date:
2011-03-15
Publication Date:
2011-01-27
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199592136
ISBN13:
9780199592135
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Weight:
737 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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