Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… As exemplified in the aristocratic, and often predatory, male protagonists of Eliza Haywood’s novels (Count D’Elmont in Love in Excess in 1719 and Fantomina’s Beauplaisir in 1725, to name a few) and prolonged two decades later with the Richardsonian antagonists Mr B, Lovelace and Sir Pollexfen. Though still a comedy staple on the stage, the figure was successfully integrated within the … would later be recycled in what is arguably one of the most famous incarnations of the rake: the character of Robert Lovelace from Samuel Richardson ’s 1748 novel Clarissa . The book continued Richardson’s didactic intent, already on …
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