Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Literature Masculinity Rank Violence The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a licentious man of loose … Englishmen and women go well beyond the bounds of fiction. In fact, the archetype embodies a specific form of masculinity that resonates with the historical reality of the period: the figure’s potential for social disruption as an … themselves of their superiority. Like their Restoration forefathers, the Georgian rakes are the illustration of a masculinity and male sociability in crisis, at a time when what it meant to be a man, and a man of high standing, was …
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