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The Accomplished Rake: Or, the Modern Fine Gentleman. Being the Genuine Memoirs of a Certain Person of Distinction. [A Novel.] | 
pan(1727) STG this is about a wayward gentleman who drugs and rapes his love interest, then abandons her while he spends a couple of years gambling and drinking and sleeping around. Later he hears that the woman's child is his spitting image, and he rethinks his life choices while being treated for syphilis, so he marries her and that's a happy ending.
I know you can't judge art of generations past by modern standards, except just watch me.
Dilara 😐 1mo
TrishB Wow 😮 1mo
Bookwomble Yeah, Wow! ? I guess in a culture in which the "dishonour" of rape attaches to the victim, marrying the preparator is some kind of social redemption. A not necessarily historical situation, sadly. 1mo
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Suet624 Ugh. 1mo
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
swynn @Bookwomble Exactly that is part of it. The other part is legitimizing the parentage of their son. The happy ending is not necessarily happy for the bride, who has little enthusiasm for marrying her rapist, but she agrees to marry for her son's sake. Her father OTOH is very happy that the marriage will mend their family's disgrace. The hero's conscience, the son's prospects, the father's reputation .... it's all about the men. 1mo
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Yikes. Sounds absolutely awful. 🤢 1mo
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