Renaissance Reckonings & Eighteenth Century: Toni Bowers, "Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760"

Renaissance Reckonings and the 18th-century Reading Group are co-sponsoring a lecture titled "Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760" by Professor Toni Bowers.

Professor Toni Bowers, University of Pennsylvania, is the author of The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1660-1760 (Cambridge University Press) and the forthcoming, Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760 (Oxford University Press). With John Richetti, she co-edited an abridgement of Richardson’s Clarissa for undergraduate classrooms (Broadview, forthcoming) and is currently co-editing (with Tita Chico) a collection of essays called Seduction and Sentiment in the Atlantic World.