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The feminization debate in eighteenth-century England : literature, commerce and luxury / E.J. Clery.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism, and the cultures of printPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Description: xi, 234 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0333777328 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Sexual alchemy in the coffee-house -- The Athenian Mercury and the Pindarick lady -- The South Sea Bubble and the resurgence of misogyny : Cato, Mandeville and Defoe -- Elizabeth Carter in Pope's garden : literary women of the 1730s -- Clarissa and the "total revolution in manners" -- Out of the closet : Richardson and the cult of literary women -- Coda : From discourse to a theory of feminization in the Essays of David Hume.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PR448.F45C54 2004 1 Available 33710000988837

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.

Sexual alchemy in the coffee-house -- The Athenian Mercury and the Pindarick lady -- The South Sea Bubble and the resurgence of misogyny : Cato, Mandeville and Defoe -- Elizabeth Carter in Pope's garden : literary women of the 1730s -- Clarissa and the "total revolution in manners" -- Out of the closet : Richardson and the cult of literary women -- Coda : From discourse to a theory of feminization in the Essays of David Hume.