Böcker av Katherine (University of Alberta) Binhammer

An audacious epilogue arms humanists with the argument that, in order to save the planet from unsustainable growth, we need to read more novels.

The seduction of a virtuous young heroine was an immensely popular plot in eighteenth-century literature, most famously in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. This book surveys seduction narratives within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives.