… be seen as a leading artistic creation of the eighteenth century, his presence nearly ubiquitous. However, his aura and influence over the lives of eighteenth-century Englishmen and women go well beyond the bounds of fiction. In fact, the … the Restoration from earlier incarnations of tricksters-seducers, 9 the rake in turn morphed into new avatars. The influence of the eighteenth-century rake cannot be denied in later archetypes such as the Gothic villain, the Byronic … stands as a later rakish heir, with examples such as Lord Ruthven in J.W. Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819, directly influenced by Byron) and the aptly-named Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Partager Partager sur Facebook …