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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Atlantic worlds in the long eighteenth century Atlantic worlds in the long eighteenth century Tita Chico,Toni Bowers "Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The c… OL16152171W
Force or fraud Force or fraud Toni Bowers 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, Dela… OL16596951W
The flirt's tragedy The flirt's tragedy Richard A. Kaye "In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot … OL6208977W
The belle gone bad The belle gone bad Betina Entzminger "Examining the "bad belle" as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad finds that white southern women writers from the antebellum period to the present have used treacherous belles to subtly indict… OL6209267W