Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… was bound to evolve. 5 . 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 …
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