Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… narratives elevate the cult of pleasure to a philosophical stance, in which unbridled hedonism blurs the line between public and private as pleasure becomes a performance. On the other hand, this pseudo-creed also expresses itself through … however is the light in which authors portrayed such traits, and to a certain extent how they were received by the public. This testifies to the ideological mutations of the period, as the understanding of what it meant to be sociable … to the gap between the values advocated by new generations of writers and the pre-existing expectations of their public. While ideals of sociability and male behaviour did evolve across the period, the tastes and attitudes of an …
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