INDEX
A
abortion, 386, 387
Acquaviva, Cardinal, 91–92, 93
Act of Toleration, 24
actresses, 343–344, 363–364
Adair, Robert, 45
Addison, Joseph, 7
Adorno, Theodor, 374
adultery, 43–44, 100, 193, 236–237, 247–249
Advocate, The, 259
African American migration, 279
Age of Reason, 7. See also Enlightenment
Alabama, 260–261
Aldini, Giovanni, 213–214
alienation of affection, 236, 256, 312
Amar, André, 182
Amelia (Fielding), 67
American Revolution, 156
Analytical Review, 154, 175
Ancilla, 82
Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America (ASCOA), 310, 311
animal magnetism, 224–229
Ansari, Aziz, 419–420
anti-heart balm legislation, 316–319
Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected (Haywood), 39
anti-Semitism, 351–357, 360, 368–373
app-enabled dating, 407–417
apprentices, 27–29, 32
Apprentice’s Vade Mecum, The (Richardson), 32–33
Armstrong, Eliza, 342
Armstrong, Louis, 276, 309
Ascension Day, 113, 114
Atomized (Houellebecq), 394–397, 414
attractiveness, 409–410
Augustine, St., 4
Austen, Mary, 266, 268
B
Balbi, Marin, 129–132
Balcombe, Florence. See Stoker, Florence
Bankes, William, 201
Banks, Ada, 282, 286
Banks, Joseph, 135
Barbaro, Marco, 102–103, 111
Bardot, Brigitte, 385
Barlow, Joel, 175, 177
Barlow, Ruth, 175
bastard children, 215, 216, 230, 240, 245
Baudrillard, Jean, 393, 413
Baumeister, Eric, 388–389
Baxter, William, 197
Bebel, August, 375–376
Bell, John, 227
Bellamy, Edward, 376
Benson, Edward White, 339–340
Bertati, Giovanni, 141–142
Bill of Rights, 24
Blake, William, 165–166, 168
Blanc, Julien, 405–406, 423
Blavatsky, Madame, 320
Blease, Cole, 290–291
Blood, Fanny, 146–147, 148
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 228, 302
Bond, Anne, 13, 22, 23
Boswell, James, 20, 72, 80, 134
Bourdieu, Pierre, 400
boxing, 261–266, 268–275, 302–303
Bradshaigh, Lady Dorothy, 59–64, 66, 75–76, 77
Bradshaigh, Sir Roger, 59
Bragadin, Matteo Giovanni, 101–104, 111, 112, 113, 117, 127, 129
Breece v. Jett, 422, 423
Bryant, William, 267
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 259
Bureau of Investigation, 281, 288–289
Burgh, James, 147
Burgh, Mrs., 147, 148, 149
Burke, Edmund, 155–159, 162, 197, 322
Burne-Jones, Edward, 365
Burney, Charles, 109
Burns, Tommy, 269–271
Butler, Josephine, 334–335, 338–339
Byron, Ada, 205
Byron, Annabella Milbanke, 201–206, 207
Byron, Clara Allegra (Alba), 217–220
Byron, Lord George Gordon, 10, 85, 152, 229–230, 237, 249–250, 259; affairs of, 202–203; Casanova and, 137–138; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 201; cicisbeismo and, 98–100; Claire Clairmont and, 207, 210, 217–222; marriage to Annabella, 201–206; Polidori and, 207–210, 211–212; scandal surrounding, 206–207; Shelleys and, 210–214, 217–222
C
Café de Champion, 282–283, 288, 309
Café de Luxe, 308–309
Cagliostro, Alessandro, 226
Caine, Hall, 357, 358
Callisto, 3
Cameron, Archibald, 72
Cameron, Lucille, 282, 284–286, 288–291, 300, 314
Cameron-Falconet, Mrs. F., 284–286, 290
Caminetti, Anthony, 297
Caminetti, Drew, 296–300
Caminetti v. United States, 299–300
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 5
capital, 400
capitalism, 36, 320, 375, 376, 391–394, 396, 414, 431
Capretta, Caterina, 115–120, 122, 126
Capretta, Pietro, 115–117
Captive of the Castle of Sennaar, The (Cumberland), 165–166
Carpentier, Georges, 301, 302
Caruso, Enrico, 312
Casanova, Gaetano, 83–84
Casanova, Giacomo, 10, 80–142; affairs of, 92–101, 112, 115–127, 134, 137–138; arrest, imprisonment, and escape of, 127–132; Byron and, 137–138; death of, 142; Don Giovanni and, 138–142; in France, 143–144; love children of, 93, 116; travels by, 111–113, 132–138; in Venetian society, 101–132; youth of, 83–93
Casanova, Zannetta, 83–84, 89–90
Catiglione, Baldassare, 5–6
Ceccaldi, Janine, 379–381
Chapman, Annie, 348
Chapone, Sarah, 49, 69
charitable institutions, 73–74
Charles II, 14
Charteris, Francis, 13–16, 21–24
Charteris, Janet, 14–15, 22–23
chastity, 4, 36, 48, 194, 259, 318, 335, 397
Chaucer, 5
Cheyne, George, 31, 53
Chicago, 279–280, 282
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 201
Chivers, Emma, 1–2, 11, 12
Choynski, Joe, 264–265, 274
Christianity, 4–5, 360, 382
Christie, Thomas, 175
Churchill, Charles, 27
Cibber, Colley, 46, 58–59
cicisbeismo, 96–101, 108
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 376–377
Clairmont, Claire, 10, 199–201, 207, 210–214, 216–220, 249–250
Clairmont, Mary Jane. See Clairmont, Claire
Clarissa: or, the History of a Young Lady (Richardson), 9, 50–64, 68, 385
Coleridge, Samuel, 166
Collier, Jane, 49
Colonda, Maria, 115–117
Commerce Clause, 276–277, 280
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 375, 394
Compagnoni, Giuseppe, 107–108
Condulmer, Antonio, 127
consent, 8–9, 11, 206, 257, 424, 426, 427
consent law, 277, 335, 340, 424
Constantinople, 93
consumerism, 383
Contagious Diseases Act, 338
contraception, 386–387, 390–391
convents, 117–119
Cook, Captain, 135
Coram, Thomas, 73
Corday, Charlotte, 181
Corfu, 93–96
Cornelys, Teresa, 133
Cotton Club, 309
Council of Three, 110–111
court culture, 107
courtesans, 20–21
courtliness, 5–6
coverture, 244–245, 247, 248
Craig, Edy, 363–364
Cranston, Isabella, 21–22
Cravan, Arthur, 304
criminal conversation, 236–237, 239, 256
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 337, 338, 340–342, 357, 367
criminals, 345–347
Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (anonymous), 70–71
Cruel Intentions (film), 9
Cumberland, George, 165–166
Curley, Jack, 302
Custody of Infants Act, 240, 242–243
D
Damian, St. Peter, 4–5
Dandolo, Marco, 102–103, 111
d’Antoni Vallati, Anna Maria, 92–93
Darwin, Charles, 344–345, 348
Darwin, Erasmus, 213, 215
dating apps, 407–417
Davis, Angela, 391
Davy, Humphry, 227
de Bernardis, Bernardo, 90–91
de Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierre, 126, 132–133
de Bougainville, Louis-Antoine, 135
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (de Gouges), 161, 182
Defoe, Daniel, 31
degeneration, 345
de Genlis, Madame, 176, 182
de Gouges, Olympe, 161, 181, 182
de la Houssaye, Abraham Nicolas Amelot, 118
Delany, Patrick, 42
Deleuze, Joseph, 226
Dennigan, William P., 317
de Pizan, Christine, 4
de Ponte, Lorenzo, 139, 141
Depsey, Jack, 312, 314
Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 344, 348
Diderot, Denis, 136
Diggs, Maury, 296–300
digital revolution, 394
Disraeli, Benjamin, 355
divorce, 44, 45, 160, 161, 172, 177, 193, 205–207, 243, 247–249, 386
Dodd, William, 75
Dohrn, Anton, 345
Don Giovanni (Mozart), 138–142
Don Juan character, 138–139
Don Juan (Byron), 137, 214
Don Juan (film), 385
double standards, 44, 248, 312–313, 339, 389, 423
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 328, 357
Drabble, Margaret, 386–387, 390–391
Dracula (Stoker), 358–368
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 344–350
Ducal Palace, 127–130
Du Maurier, George, 326, 355–357
d’Urfé, Madame, 133
Duryea, Etta. See Johnson, Etta Duryea
Dworkin, Andrea, 404, 423
Dyer, Alfred, 334
E
economic capital, 400
economic inequality, 386, 408, 430–431
Eddowes, Catherine, 348
education, female, 149–152, 160–161, 163–164, 182
Edwards, Thomas, 67–68
Elements of Physiology (Richerand), 225
Eller v. Lord, 258
Ellington, Duke, 309
embryology, 345
Emigrants, The (Imlay), 177
Émile, or On Education (Rousseau), 151–152
Engels, Friedrich, 375, 394
Enlightenment, 6–10, 12, 49, 53, 83, 106–107, 112, 123, 134, 240, 421
Eros and Civilization (Marcuse), 378, 391
erotic capital, 400, 411
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Locke), 53–54
Essay On Man (Pope), 432
Europa, 3
European civilization, 106–108
European Slave Trade in English Girls, The (Dyer), 334
Eve, 4–5
evolutionary theory, 344–345
extramarital sex, 309–310. See also adultery
F
false morality, 193–194
family dissolution, 382–383
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Cleland), 385
Fasussi, Zannetta. See Casanova, Zannetta
Fear of Flying (Jong), 385, 387, 390
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 281, 311–312
female education, 149–152, 160–161, 163–164, 182
Female Eunuch, The (Greer), 12
Female Quixote, The (Lennox), 49
female sexuality, 388–390, 403
Female Spectator, The, 48–49
female writers, 47–50, 69. See also specific writers
feminism, 6, 366–367, 386, 391, 403–407, 420–421
Fenton, Lavinia, 20
Fielding, Henry, 10, 37, 39, 58, 66–67, 133
Fielding, Sarah, 49, 68, 69
Fifty Shades of Grey (James), 2, 421
film, 368–369, 373, 403
Final Solution, 373
Fisher, Kitty, 21
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 306, 309
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 306
flappers, 306–307, 308, 420
Fluke, John, 239
Foundling Hospital, 73–74
Frankenstein (Shelley), 214–216, 220, 229
Free Love, 10, 12, 165–173, 194, 196, 199, 200, 212, 230, 250
Freisler, Roland, 370–371
French Revolution, 154–161, 168, 170–185, 196
Freud, Sigmund, 375, 376–377
Fritsch, Theodor, 370
Fukuyama, Francis, 384, 391
Fuseli, Henri, 168–171, 190, 195, 365
G
Galvani, Luigi, 213–214
Galvanism, 213–214
Galveston, Texas, 253, 261–262, 272
Game, The (Strauss), 399, 402–403, 406, 407, 421
Ganymede, 3
Gardiner, Marguerite (Countess Blessington), 220
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos), 313
George II, 22
Germany, 319, 368–376, 386
Gersen, Jacob, 425, 426, 428
Gilray, James, 228
Gimbel, Frederick, 312
Girondins, 178, 180
Glenarvon (Lamb), 220–221
Glorious Revolution, 24, 25, 155, 156
Godwin, Mary. See Shelley, Mary
Godwin, William, 158, 166–167, 170, 188–191, 194–199, 228, 235
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 108–109
“gold digger,” 313
Goldin, Claudia, 431
Goldoni, Carlo, 84, 99, 141
Gourley, John, 16
Gover v. Dill, 257
Graham, Catherine Macaulay, 158
Graham, David, 67
Grand Tour, 80
Grau, Fritz, 371–372
Great Disruption, The (Fukuyama), 384
Great Reform Act, 238, 242
Great White Flight, 270
Greer, Germaine, 12
Grimani, Alvisi, 84–85
Grundy, Sydney, 362–363
Guiccioli, Teresa, 98–99, 100
H
Haeckel, Ernst, 345
Hakim, Catherine, 400, 411
Hammond, William, 44–45
happiness, pursuit of, 123
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 390
Harlem Renaissance, 309
Harlot’s Progress, The (Hogarth), 23
Hart, Marvin, 269
Haydon, Benjamin, 233
Haygood, Bishop, 253–254
Hays, Mary, 189
Haywood, Eliza, 39, 48–49
Hazlitt, William, 196
heart balm acts, 257, 316–319
hedonism, 12
Hell-Fire Club, 44
“Heroic” seduction narrative, 10
Hewlett, John, 148, 149
Highmore, Joseph, 76–77
Hill, Aaron, 31, 39, 59, 67
Hinge, 408
History of Sir Charles Grandison, The (Richardson), 64–69, 70, 74–75
Hite, Shere, 403
Hite Report, The (Hite), 403
Hitler, Adolf, 369–370, 371, 374, 379
Hobhouse, John, 203, 223
Hogarth, William, 23, 28
Hoppner, Richard, 219
Horkheimer, Max, 374
Houellebecq, Michel, 381–384, 394–399, 407, 414, 430
How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed (Jeffries), 401
How To Pick Up Girls! (Weber), 401
Hume, David, 8, 54
Hunt, Leigh, 229
hypnotism, 225, 355, 361–362
hypnosis metaphor, 11
I
Ilive, Jacob, 20
illegitimate children, 215, 216, 230, 240, 245
Imer, Teresa, 88, 89, 116, 133
Imlay, Fanny, 183–184, 191, 216
Imlay, Gilbert, 177–180, 183–186, 188, 190, 195, 216
immigration, 279, 367
incels (involuntary celibates), 398–399
individualism, 383, 396
Industry and Idleness (Hogwarth), 28
Information age, 384, 386
Inquisition, 126–127
interpersonal conflict, 383
interracial relations, 260–261, 271–273, 284, 290–291, 294, 296, 310–311, 319
Io, 3
Irving, Henry, 323–325, 329–331, 343, 344, 351–352, 356, 357
J
Jack the Ripper, 348–351, 353–354
Jacobins, 159, 178, 180–184, 196
James II, 24, 25
jazz, 307–308
Jazz Age, 308–314
Jeffries, Jim, 268–269, 273–276
Jeffries, Ross, 401
Jenkins, Nettie, 295–296
Jerome, St., 4, 5
Jews, anti-Semitism and, 351–357, 360, 368–373
Johnson, Etta Duryea, 272–274, 282–284, 287, 319
Johnson, Jack (John Arthur), 251–277, 314; boxing career of, 261–275; decline of, 314–315, 318–319; in exile in Europe, 300–305; heavyweight championship and, 268–271, 274–276, 302–303; Mann Act and, 281–295; return to U.S. by, 305, 308–309; white women and, 268, 271–273, 282, 284–286, 290–291, 314
Johnson, Joseph, 152, 154, 157, 165, 169, 175, 189, 195
Johnson, Lucille. See Cameron, Lucille
Johnson, Samuel, 17, 49–50, 72, 74, 148
Johnson, Sol C., 294
Jong, Erica, 385, 387, 390
Joseph Andrews (Fielding), 66
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Fielding), 67–68
K
Kelly, Mary, 348–349
kerdaelophron, 132
Kerr, Clara, 266–268
Ketchel, Stanley, 272
Kingsborough, Lord and Lady, 150–152
Kipnis, Laura, 426
Klein, Ezra, 424, 428
Klossowski, Pierre, 392–393
knowledge economy, 385, 391–392
Kollontai, Alexandra, 376
Ku Klux Klan, 315, 378
L
Labor of Love (Weigel), 413–414
Ladies National Association (LNA), 334–335, 338
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 201, 202–203, 207, 220–221, 237
Lamb, William (Lord Melbourne), 236, 237–239
Langford, Sam, 301
Lankester, Ray, 345
Larson, Jane E., 404–405
laughing gas, 227, 228
La Valeur, 94–96
Lawrence, William, 212–213, 215
Leake, Elizabeth, 32
Leather Apron, 353, 360
Leigh, Augusta, 202, 204, 206–207
Lennox, Charlotte, 49
Letters Written in France (Williams), 158
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Wollstonecraft), 186–189
liberalism, 6
libertinism, 24–25, 106, 110
Libidinal Economy (Lyotard), 392–393
Living Currency (Klossowski), 392
Locke, John, 53–54
logic, 7–8
Lombroso, Cesare, 345–347, 354
London: Casanova in, 133; City of, 25–26; early eighteenth century, 16–21, 27–30; fog, 328–329; seventeenth century, 25–27; Victorian era, 327–344; Wollstonecraft in, 153
London, a poem (Johnson), 17
London, Jack, 271
loneliness, 399
Looking Backward (Bellamy), 376
Loos, Anita, 313
Louis, Joe, 318–319
Louis XIV, 107
Louis XV, 143, 144
Louis XVI, 144–145, 159, 173–175
Lovecraft, H. P., 394
Loving v. Virginia, 319
Lyceum Theatre, 327–332, 343–344, 349–350, 356, 364
lynchings, 254–256, 261, 268, 287, 291, 297
Lyotard, Jean-François, 392–393
M
MacKinnon, Catherine, 404
madness, 225
Magdalen House, 75–77, 153
male sexuality, 388
Malipiero, Alvise, 87–89
Malleus Maleficarum, 5
Man, The (Stoker), 363
Man and Superman (Shaw), 364
Mann, James Robert, 280–281
Mann Act, 277–300, 311–313, 319
Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie), 10–11
Mansfield, Richard, 344, 348–350
Manuzzi, Giovanni Battista, 126–127
Marat, Jean-Paul, 181
Marcuse, Herbert, 374–379, 391–392
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (Wollstonecraft), 191–194
Maria Teresa, 113
Marie-Antoinette, 181–182
Markovik, Erik von, 402, 414
marriage, 7, 108, 166–167, 216, 244–245, 247–249; interracial, 261, 291, 294, 310–311, 319; reformation of, 366–367. See also divorce
Marriage Bar, 386
Marx, Karl, 375, 394
Marxism, 374–377, 379, 389, 391
Mary, A Fiction (Wollstonecraft), 152, 154
Mary Magdalen, 63
Mary Stuart, 24, 26
Match Group, 411, 413
materialism, 6, 7–8, 383
Maxwell-Stirling, Sir William, 249
Mazeppa (Byron), 222
McClay, Hattie, 271–274, 282
McIntosh, Hugh D., 270–271
McMillan, Margaret, 367
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 369–370
Melbourne, Lady. See Lamb, Lady Caroline
Melbourne, Lord. See Lamb, William (Lord Melbourne)
Memmo, Lucia, 127
memoirs, 47–49
Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, The (Pilkington), 47–48
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Godwin), 195–196
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 352
mesmerism, 355
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 3–4
#MeToo movement, 418–432
Milbanke, Annabella. See Byron, Annabella Milbanke
Millar, Andrew, 30
Minassian, Alek, 398
miscegenation, 260–261, 272, 291, 319
misogyny, 4–5, 6, 423
modernity, 2, 3, 79, 278, 279, 320
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 58, 81
Moral Essays (Pope), 21, 23
morality, 36, 38–39, 69–70, 192–194, 247, 340, 390–391, 429
moral panic, 73, 292–293
Moran, Frank, 301
Morisson, Fynes, 104
Morris, William, 376, 389–390
Morrison, Jim, 385
mothers, rights of, 240–241
Mount Tambora, 210
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 138–142
Murnau, F. W., 368, 373
Murray, Fanny, 20
Murray, John, 81–82, 208
Mystery Method, 402, 416–417
N
natural rights, 240–241, 247
natural selection, 320, 344–345
Nazis, 319, 369–375
negging, 402
neo-liberalism, 396
New Man, 366–367
News From Nowhere (Morris), 376, 389–390
New Woman, 320, 343–344, 362–368
New Woman, The (Grundy), 362–363
New York Female Moral Reform Society (NYFMRS), 259
Nichols, Mary Ann, 348
Nicholson, Roberta West, 315–318
Nootbaar, Max, 286
Norris, Lola, 297
Norton, Caroline, 230–249
Norton, George, 231, 237–238, 242, 244–247, 249
Norton v. Viscount Melbourne, 238–240
Nosferatu, 368, 373
Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, The (Pinero), 363
Nuremberg Laws, 372
O
O’Brien, Nellie, 271–272
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 422–423
OkCupid, 409–411, 414
One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse), 391
online dating, 407–417
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 344–345
Osborn, John, 30
Osborne, Walter, 363
Ovid, 3–4, 5, 66
Oxford, Lady, 202
P
Padua, 85–86, 113
Paine, Thomas, 158, 175, 228
Pall Mall Gazette, 333, 334, 335, 337–338, 343, 346–347
Palm, Etta, 160
Pamela Censur’d (anonymous), 39–40
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (Richardson), 2, 34–41, 49–51, 58, 66, 419
Pankhurst, Christabel, 423
Pantisocracy, 166
parental authority, 312
Pascal, Blaise, 382
passion, 7–8, 10–11, 54, 55, 57, 83, 164–165, 401–402, 421
philanthropy, 73–74
Philipps, Constantia, 69
pick-up artists, 402, 405–407, 414–417
Pilkington, Laetitia, 42–48, 69
Pilkington, Matthew, 42–45
“pill, the,” 386–387
Pineau, Irene Marie, 314
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 363
Pitt the Younger, 154–155
pleasure, 123–124
Plecker, Walter, 311
Polidori, John William, 207–209, 211–214, 222–224, 228–229
Political Justice (Godwin), 166–167, 199
Polwhele, Richard, 195
Pope, Alexander, 21, 23, 432
Portugal, 148
post-Sexual Revolution, 392–403, 414
Powell, John, 311
Price, Richard, 147, 156
Priestley, Joseph, 228
Printing Act, 24
printing industry, 27–31
prizefighting, 261–266, 268–275, 302–303
Prohibition, 305, 312
property rights, 240–241, 243
prosititution, 19–20, 63, 74–75, 108, 243, 278, 281, 288, 293, 336–338, 340, 343, 354
Prussian Memorandum, 370–371
Public Assemblages Act, 311
public spaces, 430
Punch, 326, 329, 349, 355
Pushkin, Alexander, 77
Putnam, Robert, 430
Puységur, Marquis de, 225, 226
Q
Queen Mab (Shelley), 216
R
race relations, 252
race theory, 320
race treason, 371
racial laws, 260–261
racial violence, 275–277. See also lynchings
racism, 294, 428–429
rake culture, 13–79
rape, 8, 13, 35, 51, 404
rape culture, 405
rationality, 12
Real Social Dynamics (RSD), 406
reason, 7–11, 54, 55, 57, 83, 123, 149–150, 158, 164–165, 397, 401–402, 421, 429
Reconstruction, 252, 253, 292
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 157, 158
Reich, Wihelm, 378
Reign of Terror, 180–184
Religious Courtship (Defoe), 31
religious freedom, 24–25
repression, 376–377
Richardson, Martha, 29, 31–32
Richardson, Samuel, 24–79, 419; Apprentice’s Vade Mecum, The, 32–33; biography of, 24–34, 71–79; Clarissa: or, the History of a Young Lady, 50–64, 68; criticism of, 39, 70–71, 77–78; Fielding and, 39, 66–68; History of Sir Charles Grandison, The, 64–69, 70, 74–75; influence of, 77–78; moral values of, 69–70; Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, 2, 34–41, 49–51, 58, 66; Pilkington and, 46–48; wealth of, 41–42, 47
Richardson, Thomas Verren, 32
Richerand, Anthelme, 225
Rivington, Charles, 30
Robespierre, Maximilien, 171, 178, 180, 228
Roddenbery, Seaborn, 277, 291
Rodger, Elliot, 398
Roe, Clifford G., 280
Roebuck, John Arthur, 244
Roe v. Wade, 387
Roland, Madame, 182–183
Romantics, 10, 12
Roscoe, William, 169, 172–173
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 358
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 132, 151–152, 161, 180, 223
Rudder, Christian, 410
Russia, 376
S
Salieri, Antonio, 141
Salisbury Court, 29–30
Schreiber, Belle, 272, 273, 274, 282, 289–290, 293, 296
Schwartz-Bostunitsch, Gregor, 372–373
Scott, Benjamin, 334, 335
Sebottendorf, Rudolf von, 369
seducers, 8–9, 10, 397
seduction: definition of, 258–259; end of, 376, 393, 396; legal dimension of, 2, 8–12, 236–239, 243–244, 256–261, 404–405; literary history of, 2–6; Sexual Revolution and, 393, 396–397; as social issue, 2–3
Seduction (Baudrillard), 393, 413
seduction community, 401–403, 405–407, 414
seduction narrative, 1–12, 397, 429; classical, 99–100; Pamela as first, 34–51; sexual ideology and, 49–50
seductress, 20–21
segregation, 311, 371–372
sensibility, 53–54, 56, 73
September Massacres, 171–172
Seward, Anne, 49
Seward, Thomas, 49
sex bureaucracy, 425–429
sex recession, 422–423
sex trafficking, 334–337. See also white slave trade
sexual assault allegations, 418–432
sexual culture, 421–422
sexual economics, 384–393, 396
sexual experience, 6
sexual fraud, 405
sexual freedom, 10, 12, 105, 108, 165–173, 199, 245, 312, 366, 386–387, 391, 393
sexual harassment, 426–427
sexual ideology, 39, 69–70
sexual liberation, 12, 165, 167, 366, 378, 379, 387, 396–397, 402–403, 414, 424. See also sexual freedom; Sexual Revolution
sexual morality, 6, 309–310
Sexual Revolution, 12, 309–312, 378, 384–396, 422
sexual virtue, 196
sex workers, 19–20, 74–75, 281, 354. See also prostitution
Shakespeare, William, 6
Shamela (Fielding), 39, 66
Sharpe, Samuel, 97
Shaw, George Bernard, 323, 324–325, 330, 357, 364
Shelley, Clara, 217, 218–219
Shelley, Harriet, 197–198, 199, 217
Shelley, Mary, 10, 11, 194, 196, 197–250, 429; Byron and, 210–214; Caroline Norton and, 230–236, 239–242; death of, 249; Frankenstein, 214–216, 220, 229; Free Love and, 230; Percy Shelley and, 197–201, 217–219, 229; tragic sensibility of, 200
Shelley, Percy, 10, 197–201, 207, 210–214, 216–219, 229, 249–250
Shelley, William (Wilmouse), 200, 216, 218, 230
Sheridan, Caroline. See Norton, Caroline
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 231, 322
Shylock character, 352
Sidney, Philip, 5–6
Signora F., 94, 96, 100
Sims, Edwin W., 280
Sims Act, 277
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 5
Sixties, 378–379, 382, 385, 386, 423
slavery, 252
Smith, Adam, 429
Smith, Alfred E., 312
Smith, Henry, 254–256, 275
Smollett, Tobias, 99
sociability, 106–107, 108, 110
social democracy, 396
social interactions, 430
socialism, 375–376, 389–390, 393
social mobility, 20–21
Society for the Reformation of Manners, 26
sodomy, 207–208
somnambulism, 224–229
Sorrows of Rosalie, The (Norton), 231
Southey, George, 166
Southey, Robert, 195
sporting culture, 266, 308
Stanley, Edward Lyulph, 341
“Statues, The” (Pilkington), 46
Stead, William Thomas, 333–344, 354, 368
Steinem, Gloria, 403
sterilization acts, 311
Sterne, Laurence, 27
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 344–350
Stoker, Bram, 11, 320–368; biography of, 320–323; career of, 357–358; death of, 368; Dracula, 358–368; Henry Irving and, 323–325, 329–330, 357; Lyceum Theatre and, 327–332, 350, 356, 357; The Man, 363; marriage of, 325–327; W.T. Stead and, 343
Stoker, Florence, 325–327, 363, 365, 368
Stoker, Irving Noel Thornley, 326
Stone, John Hurford, 176
Strauss, Neil, 399, 402–403, 407, 415, 421
Streicher, Julius, 370
Stride, Elizabeth, 348
Suk Gersen, Jeannie, 425, 426, 428
surplus-repression, 377
Svengali character, 355–356
Sweden, 427–428
Swift, Jonathan, 23, 27, 42, 43
T
Tahiti, 134–136, 166
Talfourd, Sir Thomas, 241
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice, 160–161
telepathy, 355
Tellez, Gabriel, 138–139
Terry, Ellen, 343–344
Tertullian, 4, 5
Thelwall, John, 224, 228
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 306
Thomas, Michel. See Houellebecq, Michel
Thomas, René, 380–382
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (Wollstonecraft), 149–150
Thule Society, 369
Tillman, Ben, 297
Tinder, 410, 411–412, 414, 430
Tinger, 408–409
Titanic, 368
Title IX, 425–426, 428–429
Tom Jones (Fielding), 66–68
Torbillon, Robert A., 312
Tower of London, 25
Treatise of Human Nature, A (Hume), 54
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 356
Trelawney, Edward, 229, 233–235
Trilby (Du Maurier), 355–357
Tunney, Gene, 312
Twenge, Jean, 430
Twenties, 306–314
U
United States v. John Arthur Johnson, 292–295, 297, 300
university consent guidelines, 425–426
“Unsex’d Females, The” (Polwhele), 195–196
“unsexed,” 338–339
Updike, John, 384–385
V
Vampire, The (Burne-Jones), 365
vampires, 358–370
Vampyre, The (Polidori), 220–224, 229
Vance, Myrtle, 253–254
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 312
Vane, Lady Frances, 69
Venice, 80–82, 85, 97, 101–132, 136, 142; convents of, 117–119; Enlightenment in, 106–107; society of, 108–111; women in, 104–106, 117–119
Venus, 135
Victoria (queen), 239
Victorian era, 69–70, 320, 327–344, 361–368
Vienna, 113
villainous seduction narrative, 8–12
Vindication of the Rights of Men, A (Wollstonecraft), 157–159
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft), 161–165
virtue, 36–37, 51, 71, 196
Vohs, Kathleen, 388–389
Volstead Act, 305
Voltaire, 10, 133
von Schlabrendorf, Gustav, 176–177
W
Walcott, Joe, 264
Wallis, Samuel, 134–135
Walpole, Horace, 37, 76
Warrington, Marsha, 297
Washington, Booker T., 286–287
Watts, George, 343
Webb, Beatrice, 366
Weber, Eric, 400–401
Webster, Sir Richard, 341
Weigel, Moira, 413–414
Weimar Republic, 368–369
Weinstein, Harvey, 418–422, 431
Wells, Ida, 254
Westbrook, Harriet. See Shelley, Harriet
Whatever (Houellebecq), 394–395, 397–398, 407, 408
White, Arnold, 355
White Cross League, 340
whiteness, 311
white slave trade, 277–281, 291–292, 334–347, 372
White-Slave Traffic Act. See Mann Act
white supremacists, 252
whores, 20
“Wife of Bath’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 5
Wilberforce, William, 73
Wilde, Oscar, 325, 329, 357
Willard, Frances, 277, 424
Willard, Jess, 302–303
William of Orange, 24
Williams, Helen Maria, 158, 171–172, 176, 182
Wing, Isadora, 385
witches, 5, 320
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 10, 145–198, 338, 429, 431; biography of, 145–154; death of, 194; in France, 173–185, 196; Free Love and, 165–173, 194; Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 186–189; Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, 191–194; marriage to Godwin of, 189–191; Mary, A Fiction, 152, 154; Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 149–150; Vindication of the Rights of Men, A, 157–159; Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 161–165
womanhood, ideal of, 69
“woman question,” 6
women: early eighteenth century, 19–21; education of, 149–152, 160–161, 163–164, 182; Enlightenment view of, 53–54; European, 107; exploitation of, 63; flappers, 306–307, 308, 420; in French Revolution, 155–161, 180–183; Mann Act and, 295–296, 298–299, 312–313; marriage and, 244–245; rights of, 159–164, 240–243, 245–249, 257–258, 362; sexual economics and, 384–391; sexuality of, 388–390; sexual rights of, 338; Venetian, 104–106, 117–119; Victorian era, 338–340, 361–368; vilification of, 4–5
Women and Socialism (Bebel), 375–376
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 277, 310
Women’s March, 155, 156
Wood, Myron, 1–2
Woolf, Virginia, 168
World War I, 301–305
World War II, 319, 374–375, 379
Worsdale, James, 43–44
Wyndham, Horace, 331, 332
Y
“Yes Means Yes,” 424
Yorke, Henry Galgacus Redhead, 243
Young, Arthur, 150
Young, Edward, 58
youth culture, 308, 312
Z
Zeus, 3