Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on. Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact.
I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. It is a deal of trouble for you and you are better off watching and drawing your conclusions from a distance than you would be if I got my tarse up your petticoats.
Do not despair, I am up for that as well. And the same warning applies. Still your cheesy erections till I have had my say. But later when you shag - and later you will shag, I shall expect it of you and I will know if you have let me down - I wish you to shag with my homuncular image rattling in your gonads.
Feel how it was for me, how it is for me and ponder. Did he know something more profound? Or is there some wall of wretchedness that we all batter with our heads at that shining, livelong moment. That is it. That is my prologue, nothing in rhyme, no protestations of modesty, you were not expecting that I hope.
I read some for The Bookseller's Daughter , because Joseph is exactly that sort of a libertine, and he's written a book called A Libertine Education. Unfortunately, the libertine novels weren't much when it came to graphic stuff -- in Bookseller's Daughter I just sort of imply that Joseph's book is more explicit than it actually would have been. And I have him write an "oriental" harem story as well -- also very popular in pre-revolutionary France.
The Libertine Reader is a great source for all this. Wow--I haven't seen "The Libertine", but I have read a bunch of Rochester's poetry and that monologue sounds exactly like something I think he would say. Like Kristina, I tend to think of "libertine" as more extreme than "rake'--not sure why exactly.
And "rogue" to me involves some element of living by his wits. My favorite rake hero is Damerel in Georgette Heyer's "Venetia". I haven't actually written a lot of rake heroes myself i realize. Rakes, rougues and libertines I love them all. I'd be wise, and smuggly secure that I was NOT attracted to him I'm just a reader here so I'm not familar with The Libertine and Rochester poetry, but I'm going to be looking it up!
I've always taken for granted what I read is just historical romances so I never knew much of the real history and never did til a bit recently when I've gone on blogs to learn about more.
So its been opening the floodgates recently! I want to learn lots but I'm afraid I'll get into it so much I'll be reading that rather than my romances! But I do plan to look up those both to get a feel for them.
I do know that I love reading a Rake story in my historical romances whereby his falling in love makes him a one woman man :. I'd find a hero like that--charming and promiscuous in it--who is "tamed" by the heroine a lot more realistic because his libertine tendencies aren't motivated by a dislike of women. Or at least a hero as a rake because it's all he's known, it's condoned, and he doesn't know that it's "wrong". Generally, just some variety in the reasons for being a man ho and them not being so manufactured.
Caffey, go for it! I promise it will only make your romance reading more enjoyable. Camilla, your comments made me happy. Loves the way they taste and feel and smell. Loves the way they think. Would much rather be lounging for days in a woman's bed than hanging around his club. And he's fairly upset that he's been reduced to fortune hunting. LOL You've inspired me! I've been dreading having to sit down and write the synopsis, so thanks for hte much needed inspiration! I love and am inspired by both Caffey and Camilla's posts.
In order to understand the distinction between these two words, we can return to the Word Vector Interface to explore their differing contexts. Her argument for what constitutes a good lover specifically critiques fops for ostentatious dressing:. His life might prioritize pleasure and hedonism, along with fashion that any fop might envy, but in a similar fashion to the rake, he may show little care for the women he also pursues.
Across the WWO corpus, examination of these terms can aid in understanding their uses as descriptors of character traits, insults, and signs of cultural shift. When analyzed using word2vec, the corpus reflects textual connections which may be less visible when reading these works individually.
The basic query in the Word Vector Interface can be of great use in locating similar words throughout the corpus, while the chronological search in WWO can reveal key terms in context, the number of texts referencing the words, and their historical distribution.
The golden age of the libertines might be over, vanished with the court of Charles II, but their influence lives on in the corpus of Women Writers Online.
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