Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… during the Restoration to his apparent decline towards the end of the Georgian era, the figure seems deeply intertwined with the specific hic et nunc of eighteenth-century Great Britain. As such, the rake’s 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. … to evoke a distinctive cultural figure. It is then indeed that the rake became the widely recognisable archetype of a witty, hedonistic man, often from the nobility or at the very least wealthy, bent on sensual gratification. The …
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