Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… 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 Concepts > … accountable, in plots of intrigues and seduction which offered ideologically-charged commentaries on eighteenth-century sociability. 1 . Different chronological conceptions of the long eighteenth-century co-exist. I favour the incarnation … 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 one hand, rakish narratives elevate the cult of pleasure to a …
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