Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… upper-class men. Lovelace spends most of the plot agonising over Clarissa’s refusal to submit to him, her status as a woman, the daughter of a mere country gentleman and – perhaps worst of all – a rival author 6 fracturing the grandiose … the last Georgian king, first as Prince Regent then as George IV; perhaps most remembered for his sexual scandals, his womanising and cruelty towards his many lovers being well-documented and identifying him as perhaps the last great rake …
Literature | Masculinity | Rank | Violence
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