A thousand wrecks! : rakes' progresses in some eighteenth century English novels
This thesis examines the figure of the rake as portrayed in the eighteenth-century English novel, a character strangely neglected in critical studies. The first chapter examines 'libertine' writers of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, notably Bernard de Mandeville; and...
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University of Oxford
1990
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304964 |