Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… initial reception and subsequent trajectory identify him as a cultural indicator , with which to measure the shifts in gendered sociability and expectations towards upper-class men throughout the period. Practices > Politics & Society … man, often from the nobility or at the very least wealthy, bent on sensual gratification. The character’s class and gender privileges enable him to disregard social conventions without being held accountable, in plots of intrigues and … of any relapse. Her book stages the rake archetype as the product of an instruction corrupted by unchecked social and gendered privileges, with sexual terrorism presented as the weapon of choice to assert his authority. Such an …
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