Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… on Charles II’, and ‘The Disabled Debauchee’. See John Wilmot, Selected Poems, ed. Paul Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). The rake can be presented as an illustration of unregulated sociability, driven by two opposite forces. On … blurs the line between public and private as pleasure becomes a performance. On the other hand, this pseudo-creed also expresses itself through staunch irreverence towards established forms of authority in which the rake’s own social standing … in Peter Sabor (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). It can still be argued however that Richardson , with characters such as Lovelace’s penitent friend John …
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