Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660-1800

Bowers, Toni

doi:10.1002/9780470996232.ch8

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture 2007

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996232.ch8

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Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660-1800

Toni Bowers¹

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The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800

Binhammer

2009

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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 stories of women's emotional and sexual lives. Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory, Binhammer argues that the seduction narrative allowed writers to explore different fates for the heroine than the domesticity that became the dominant form in later literature. This study will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literature, social and cultural history, and women's and gender studies.

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The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800

Binhammer

2009

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Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820

Shields

2010

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What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the Parliamentary Union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century writers understood nationhood. She argues that, in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the Union, Scottish writers appealed to sentiment, or refined feeling, to imagine the nation as a community. They sought to transform a Great Britain united by political and economic interests into one united by shared sympathies, even while they used the gendered and racial connotations of sentiment to differentiate sharply between Scottish, English, and British identities. By moving Scotland from the margins to the center of literary history, the book explores how sentiment shaped both the development of British identity and the literature within which writers responded creatively to the idea of nationhood.

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Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660-1800

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The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800

The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800

Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820

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