Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… by the time and place in which he emerged. These elements, as well as the core characteristics of the rake’s social status, sexual proclivity and overall impudence, remain stable throughout all eighteenth-century depictions. 5 What … men and women bringing about new ideals of soberer sociability and taste, of personal worth no longer based on status alone. In this context, the perception of the rake archetype was bound to evolve. 5 . As exemplified in the … of licentious 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 …
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