..., commercial society heading into what Charles Taylor has recently called the “immanent frame.” Its heroes and heroines are best understood as virtuous Christians beset by new temptations, misunderstandings, seductions, which they generally, in the end, overcome. In this light, sentimentalism might be defined...

...Toni Bowers Binhammer Katherine . The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747-1800 ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2009 ). Pp. vii + 246 . $90 Conway Alison . The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750 ( Toronto : Toronto...

... to be the evil agents of seduction and ruin, why and how did women persist in reading and writing them? This essay attempts to answer the question by examining scenes of novel-reading in two novels written by women: Mary Hays’ fem- inist Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Elizabeth Hamilton’s satiric...

... recruit- ment as seduction and establishes a masculine gender model in Plume that is geared toward encouraging men to march to their deaths. In fact, Farquhar practically succeeds in making war and enlistment attractive, partly by accepting the corruption...

... argue that the presumed validity of con- tract marriages, and the popularity of clandestine marriages, make Sarah’s relentless pursuit of Rakewell seem to involve more than a casual seduction. By historicizing the Rake’s Progress from the perspective of matrimonial conventions in the first half...

... to seduction. Taking issue with those who see Haywood as a mere pornographer, Lubey claims that, by Haywood’s own account, her amatory fiction is based on the premise that “the body’s pleasures” achieved through an imaginative reading of her works “can uphold moral clar- ity regarding desire...

... Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love    1 0 9 and its vicissitudes, often humorous, cannot be fully reconciled with a roman- tic attachment to a soulful love that occupies its subjects from within, often engenders suffering, and is ultimately uninterested in the techniques and poses of seduction...

... enjoyable contextual study, François Boucher: Seductive Visions, which accompanied an exhibition (30 September 2004 to 17 April 2005) mounted by the Wallace Collection, one of the most splendid repositories of Boucher’s pic- tures in the world.3 Notwithstanding this and other worthy publications, Hyde...

... of taste in that both participate in the practices of polite refinement and employ the same middle-class version of feminine beauty identified by Jones. However, gallantry also operates as seduction; and so unlike the discourse of taste, it offers no resistance...

... that an Eastern, male-centered truth would be distasteful to the dame de la Cour, so he transforms the truth to fit her tastes. In this reading, Zuléma is Rica veiled in silk (travesti), a Rica who has taken on a seductive female voice in order to prevent any unpleasantness. Zuléma’s rhetorical strate- gies...

..., replete as that corpus is with scenes of seduction, rape, incest, adultery, bigamy, and prostitution. But the predominance of that critical focus over the years has, to my mind, served to overshadow the equally prevalent and relevant component of Behn’s work that is the subject of this essay...

... an important role in reconfiguring the sexually active woman into the victim of seduction. Paradoxically, the love of liberty deprived many people of their sexual liberty. However, part of the sea change Lyons detects is really a matter of degree rather than kind, and it may also reflect a change...

... even physi- cal, conflict)” between Burney and Guiffardière are “described, as a clash of intellects and wills,” and sees them as fictionalized in a certain way, Burney playing the heroine in a seduction narrative, suspicious “that the married clergyman may have a guilty predilection in her...

... Amorio her “Brief and sorrowful Adventures” (47) as a virtuous Devon- shire farm girl seduced by an aristocrat and abandoned by him in London without money or friends. One day, she was accosted by a “genteel Fel- low” in Somerset Gardens to whom she told the same tale of seduction; the fellow...

... and then dividing the latter two categories into thematic subgenres ( adventure and travel, seduction and rape, and so forth). I will have more to say on this 1 3 0 Eighteenth-Century Life approach later. In all of this, Orr did not find much of what Watt had called presentational realism : Verisimilitude...

... perspectives, and often privilege marginal voices. Not very high- minded, they never- theless are self- conscious about the rami‰cations of secrecy, ethically and politically. Sex and power are inseparable in scenes of seduction, confusion of agency, and abuses of power. Explanatory keys can make readers com...

..., or romance as a mode of both marvels and seductions, flower colorfully but briefly, only to disappear. Williams’s staccato inflections may be partially justified by her contention that grandiose poems on public events aspire to sublime moments, and that integrity was not part of these works’ designs...

... Life of Books proves conclusively, however, such depictions of reading are works of fiction as seductive and potentially mislead- ing as any of the novels held by these entranced sitters. The history of sociable reading (3) that Williams s book eloquently and brilliantly constructs from an impressive...

...), reconciles “the demands of the individual and the collective” (142) so as to “preserv[e] particularity within generality” (140). Wordsworth for his part is said—with some lack of clarity—to have resisted “the seductions of the Ballad Revival, both its historicist assuredness and its reliance...

..., Gregory. Early Modern Italy, 1550–1800: Three Seasons in European History (N.Y.: St. Martin’s, 2000). Pp. xv + 444. $65, $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-312-23179- 2; 23180-6 Hartmann, Pierre. Le contrat et la séduction: Essai sur la subjectivité amoureuse dans le...