Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… in Love in Excess in 1719 and Fantomina’s Beauplaisir in 1725, to name a few) and prolonged two decades later with the Richardsonian antagonists Mr B, Lovelace and Sir Pollexfen. Though still a comedy staple on the stage, the figure was … be recycled in what is arguably one of the most famous incarnations of the rake: the character of Robert Lovelace from Samuel Richardson’s 1748 novel Clarissa . The book continued Richardson’s didactic intent, already on display in his … as a beguiling figure, whose archaic and predatory dimension captivates as much as it repulses. 7 . See in particular: Samuel Richardson, ‘Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin’, in Peter Sabor (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of …
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