Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… in 1740 with Pamela , where the figure of the rake is already established as the main threat to the young heroine’s virtue. Unlike Mr. B, who is eventually redeemed and becomes a supposedly devoted husband to the former servant Pamela, … was instrumental in ushering in the age of the ‘modern polite gentleman’. 8 This new model offered an ideal of male virtue whose nobility was determined by moral character rather than pedigree, more in tune with emerging middle-class … Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Richardson, Samuel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, ed. Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology …
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