Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… men throughout the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Literature Masculinity Rank Violence The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a licentious man of … rather than pedigree, more in tune with emerging middle-class ideals. This foil to the rake was championed in the literature of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth, with authors such as Fanny Burney and Jane Austen taking … Samuel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, ed. Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). … Literature … Masculinity … Rank … Violence … Rake …
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