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Rules for Reforming a Rake

Author : Meara Platt

Publisher : Meara Platt

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 12,90 MB

Release : 2016-06-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1945767022

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He’s spent years building his reputation as the town’s most unrepentantly dissolute rakehell. She is determined to reform him. Enjoy this hilarious, bestselling Regency series. London is never the same once the Farthingales move onto Chipping Way, one of the loveliest streets in Mayfair. With five beautiful daughters in residence, the street has become a trap for unwary bachelors. Who will be next to fall? Daisy Farthingale protected her sister by taking blame for a scandalous incident that occurred during her sister’s debut season and now embarks upon her own entrance into society with a slight tarnish to her reputation. No one trusts her judgment when it comes to men, but Daisy is determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her beloved family by marrying the most honorable man she can find. Unfortunately, she finds herself falling in love with London’s most notorious rakehell, Lord Gabriel Dayne, a disreputable wastrel who may be spying for the French. What’s a girl to do? Fortunately, Daisy has gotten her hands on Lady Forsythia Haversham’s Rules for Reforming a Rake. Gabriel Dayne, younger son of the Earl of Trent, has spent the war years cultivating his image as a knave and drunken rakehell to hide his true occupation as a spy against Napoleon’s forces. His missions on the Continent have taken a harrowing physical toll on him as well as an emotional one. Sent home to recover from gunshot wounds acquired in a skirmish (though most of London Society believes he was shot by a jealous husband), he’s determined to enjoy the wastrel reputation he’s taken great pains to develop, for he soon expects to be recalled to battle. But the dangers he encountered in Napoleon’s war pale in comparison to the danger he faces from Daisy Farthingale, the beautiful slip of a girl who creates havoc with his heart from the moment he sets eyes upon her. Enjoy the entire series: The Viscount’s Rose A Midsummer’s Kiss Rules for Reforming a Rake My Fair Lily The Duke I’m Going To Marry Earl of Hearts Capturing the Heart of a Cameron



RAKE'S REFORM

Author : Marie-Louise Hall

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 25,68 MB

Release : 2014-04-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460360737

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Jonathan Lindsay was surprised when he was confronted by the ever-passionate Miss Janey Hilton. Her love for lost causes drew him to her, along with her astonishing beautfy and forceful ways. But the scoundrel in him made a big mistake by wagering that he could seduce the naive miss! The joke was soon on him when the unthinkable happened—the determined bachelor Jonathan fell in love! Baffled by his sudden emotion, he knew he had to call off the wager. But would it be too much, too late, when Janey discovered his horrendous deception?



A Rake's Reform

Author : Anne Barbour

Publisher : Belgrave House

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 41,34 MB

Release : 2011-03-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1610845161

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Charles Trent, Earl of Bythorne, was an unapologetic rake. Hester Blayne was a woman of passion whose writings incited women to stand up to men’s power. Hester set out to show Thorne the error of his immoral ways; Thorne accepted the challenge of convincing Hester that it was folly for women to defy men’s rule. But each discovered something unexpected in the process. Regency Romance by Anne Barbour; originally published by Signet



The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Author : Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 50,14 MB

Release : 2000-05-11

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780521588126

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.



The Rake's Proposal

Author : Sarah Elliott

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 24,72 MB

Release : 2011-12-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 145922499X

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A Scandalous Secret was part of the dowry Katherine Sutcliff would bring to her bridal bed. And any prospective suitor on the Marriage Mart would have to live with it—or live without her! But her pressing need for a suitable match was diverted by her most unsuitable attraction to the disreputable Lord Benjamin Sinclair. A Rakish Life had been Benjamin’s choice, but now the adventurous gentleman was tempted to stay closer to home. How else could he keep a watchful eye on Kate Sutcliff, when the gangly girl he’d teased in childhood had grown into a most unconventional beauty?



Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696–1747

Author : Dr Aparna Gollapudi

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 27,92 MB

Release : 2013-05-28

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1409478793

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In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology, and middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural anxieties engendered by these developments, Gollapudi suggests, the reform comedies must be seen not as clichéd and moralistic productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Gollapudi's study shows that reform comedies covered a range of contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and culture.



The Novel Stage

Author : Marcie Frank

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 30,50 MB

Release : 2020-02-14

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1684481694

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2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.



A Genealogy of the Gentleman

Author : Mary Beth Harris

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 45,80 MB

Release : 2024-03-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1644533308

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A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman’s masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal society, had no real means of influencing dominant structures of masculinity. By placing writers such as Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Mary Robinson in dialogue with canonical representatives of the gentleman author—Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Samuel Richardson—Mary Beth Harris shows how these women carved out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and appeal were dependent on women’s influence. Ultimately, this project considers the import of these women writers’ legacy, both progressive and conservative, on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.



New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature

Author : Aleksondra Hultquist

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 19,37 MB

Release : 2016-07-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317196929

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This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and significance. While contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic intertextuality or unresolved political moments, the volume focuses more on those works that have had less attention: dramas, correspondence, journalistic endeavors, and late prose fiction. The methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations of Manley, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative close readings, as well as some recently influential theories, like geocriticism and affect studies. This book forges new paths in the many underdeveloped directions in Manley scholarship, including her work’s exploration of foreign locales, the power dynamics between individuals and in relation to states, sexuality beyond heteronormativity, and the shifting operations and influences of genre. While it draws on previous writing about Manley’s engagement with Whig/Tory politics, gender, and queerness, it also argues for Manley’s contributions as a writer with wide-ranging knowledge of both the inner sanctums of London and the outer developing British Empire, an astute reader of politics, a sophisticated explorer of emotional and gender dynamics, and a flexible and clever stylist. In contrast to the many ways Manley has been too easily dismissed, this collection carefully considers many points of view, and opens the way for new analyses of Manley’s life, work, and vital contributions to the full range of forms in which she wrote.



Emily Hamilton and Other Writings

Author : Sukey Vickery

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 10,92 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0803217854

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Sukey Vickery?s Emily Hamilton is an epistolary novel dealing with the courtship and marriages of three women. Originally published in 1803, it is one of the earliest examples of realist fiction in America and a departure from other novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. From the outset its author intended it as a realist project, never delving into the overly sentimental plotting or characterization present in much of the writing of Vickery?s contemporaries. Emily Hamilton explores from a decidedly feminine perspective the idea of a woman?s right to choose her own spouse and the importance of female friendship. Vickery?s characterization of women further diverges from the typical eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century didactic of the righteous/sinful woman and depicts, instead, believable female characters exhibiting true-to-life behavior. ø A presentation of this novel accompanied by Vickery?s poetry, letters, a diary fragment, and a few nineteenth-century responses to her work, Emily Hamilton and Other Writings is the first complete collection of Vickery?s writings.



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