Seduction and Political Power

Article about seduction in the early American novel as a call for political reform:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rhetoric_and_public_affairs/v004/4.2plec.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Special-Programs/SP-691Fall-2007/64AE4C38-E6C5-45F7-A62D-B12062118544/0/4_seduction2.pdf

A discussion on virtue

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597(198710)3%3A44%3A4%3C689%3ATRWVAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
(The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic
Jan Lewis
The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 689-721
Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture )