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Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760 Bowers, Toni (Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania)
Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760
Bowers, Toni (Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania)
This book tell the story of how rape and seduction came to be distinguished according to measures of women's resistance and consent in low-brow "amatory" writing, by writers such as Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Samuel Richardson.
384 pages, frontispiece
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 15, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199592135 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 382 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 240 × 30 mm · 698 g |
| Language | English |