Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… was bound to evolve. 5 . As exemplified in the aristocratic, and often predatory, male protagonists of Eliza Haywood’s novels (Count D’Elmont in Love in Excess in 1719 and Fantomina’s Beauplaisir in 1725, to name a few) and prolonged two … Pollexfen. Though still a comedy staple on the stage, the figure was successfully integrated within the then-emergent novel genre, strengthening both his longevity and cultural outreach. But the sympathetic portrayal of the Restoration … in the 1950s and reinvented by queer artist David Hockney in the 1960s. Another notable example is Mary Davys’ 1727 novel The Accomplished Rake, Or Modern Fine Gentleman , in which the undue pride and failed education of the young …
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