Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… shifts in gendered sociability and expectations towards upper-class men throughout the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Literature Masculinity Rank Violence The term ‘rake’, … the Crown, the Church and the Law. Rakery thus disrupts sociability by undermining the very institutions that structure society, the figure styling himself as his own monarch and perhaps even his own god, subjecting others to his will. There …
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