Force or fraud

By Toni Bowers

Subjects: Literature and morals, Seduction in literature, English fiction, Vrouwen, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Verleiding, Women in literature, Gezag, Authority in literature, History and criticism, Engels, History, Moraal, Bellettrie

Description: 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.