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954385
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b708755
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Main Entry
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Binhammer, Katherine,1962-
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Title & Author
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The seduction narrative in Britain, 1747-1800 /\ Katherine Binhammer.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (vii, 246 pages)
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ISBN
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0511635044
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: 0511635494
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: 052111134X
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: 9780511635045
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: 9780511635496
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: 9780521111348
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
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Contents
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Knowing love : the epistemology of Clarissa -- The whore's love or the Magdalen's seduction -- After knowledge : married heroines and seduction -- Seduction in street literature -- Melodramatic seduction : 1790's fiction and the excess of the real.
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Abstract
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Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in their lovers' vows. In this book Katherine Binhammer surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying st.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Feminism in literature.
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Love in literature.
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Love-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Seduction in literature.
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Seduction-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Women in literature.
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Women-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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English literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literatur
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Love in literature.
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Love.
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Seduction in literature.
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Seduction.
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Verführung
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Women in literature.
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Women.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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Dewey Classification
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820.9/3543
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LC Classification
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PR448.S34B56 2009eb
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