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"This book looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. In this novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery"--Provided by publisher.

Runaway wives --- Illegitimate children --- Accident victims --- Governesses --- Seduction --- England --- France --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales

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The hero of the story is a demonic lover -- dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine -- beautiful, and innocent -- willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interes

English literature --- Thematology --- Demonology in literature --- English fiction --- Seduction in literature --- Démonologie dans la littérature --- Roman anglais --- Séduction dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Démonologie dans la littérature --- Séduction dans la littérature --- Sex in literature. --- Evil in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Victims in literature. --- Seduction in literature. --- Demonology in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Evil in literature --- Good in literature --- History and criticism. --- Good and evil in literature.

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Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous – and at times infamous – autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casanova’s role and importance as an author of the European Enlightenment. From the margins of libertine authorship where he has been traditionally relegated, the various essays in this collection reposition Casanova at the heart of Enlightenment debates on medicine, sociability, gender, and writing. Based on new scholarship, this reappraisal of a key Enlightenment figure explores the period’s fascination with ethnography, its scientific societies, and its understanding of gender, medicine, and women. Casanova is here finally granted his rightful place in cultural and literary history, a place which explains his enduring yet controversial reputation as a figure of seduction and adventure.

Enlightenment. --- Casanova, Giacomo, --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Fellini. --- Giacomo Casanova. --- History of My Life. --- Medecine. --- autobiography. --- eighteenth-century Europe. --- epistolary writing. --- history of Paris. --- libertine. --- love. --- seduction. --- sociability.

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This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era.The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines

Antique, the --- Civilisation --- Art --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Antiquity --- Civilization, Ancient, in art --- Seduction in art --- Power (Social sciences) in art --- Civilization, Ancient, in literature --- Seduction in literature --- Power (Social sciences) in literature --- Congresses.

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Fathers and Daughters explores the complex nature of this subject using the voices and experiences of both fathers and daughters. Sue Sharpe provides an examination of the important processes operating within the relationship such as those affecting gender roles, achievement, teenage sexuality, women's relationships with men and ageing. It is an original and captivating treatment of a strangely neglected subject. Sue Sharpe is a free-lance writer and researcher based in London.

Fathers and daughters in literature --- German drama (Tragedy) --- Seduction in literature --- 830-2 --- 830-2 Duitse literatuur: toneel; drama --- Duitse literatuur: toneel; drama --- History and criticism --- Fathers and daughters. --- Daughters and fathers --- Daughters --- Father and child --- Girls