Rotters in literature, John Keats' poem To Autumn, The Art of Innovation at the Science Museum
We look at rotters in fiction: do women have equal status with men when it comes to being bad in books? Rotters have populated the novel since Robert Lovelace first appeared in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa nearly two centuries ago. But what exactly is a rotter, how do rotters differ from cads and, when women are rotters, are they given equal treatment by both their writers and their readers? John Mullan, Professor of Literature at UCL and critic Alex Clark discuss the rotter's progress.“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…”It is 200 years, to the…
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