Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760

Toni Bowers

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PREFACE Introduction: 'Force or Fraud'? PART I: PASSIVE OBEDIENCE: SEDUCTION PARADIGMS AND OLD-TORY MYTHMAKING 1. Seduction Stories in Seventeenth-Century Literary History 2. The Problem of Resistance in Old-Tory Ideology: Passive Obedience, Seduction Plots, and the Five Love-Letters 3. Seduction and Sedition: James, Duke of Monmouth and Seduction-Story Paradigms 4. Seduction and Resistance in the 1680s: Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister 5. Tory Sensibilities Old and New: The Perils of False Brethren and Passive Obedience PART II: COLLUSIVE RESISTANCE: SEDUCTION STORIES AND NEW-TORY VIRTUE 6. The Problem of Collusion: Manley's The New Atalantis 7. Constructing Scandalous Virtue: The Adventures of Rivella and Two Perjur'd Beauties 8. Making a Virtue of Complicity: Haywood's Scandal Fiction 9. Collusive Resistance and Complicit Virtue in the 1740s: Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa EPILOGUE: AFTER THE JACOBITES: SIR CHARLES GRANDISON AND LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SEDUCTION FICTION

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