Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). The rake can be presented as an illustration of unregulated sociability, driven by two opposite forces. On one hand, rakish narratives elevate the cult of pleasure to a philosophical stance, in … rake was championed in the literature of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth, with authors such as Fanny Burney and Jane Austen taking direct inspiration from the works of Richardson, among others. A new cohort of women … Comedies , ed. Gāmini Salgādo (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986). Hume, Robert, The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983). Linnane, Fergus, The Lives of the English Rakes …
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