Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Mandell, Laura C.

Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121161)

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Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Mandell, Laura C.

Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain

$35.00
Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Mandell, Laura C.

Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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" The eighteenth century saw the birth of the concept of literature as business: literature critiqued and promoted capitalism, and books themselves became highly marketable canonical objects. During this period, misogynous representations of women often served to advance capitalist desires and to redirect feelings of antagonism toward the emerging capitalist order. Misogynous Economies proposes that oppression of women may not have been the primary goal of these misogynistic depictions. Using ps

Author: Laura C. Mandell
ISBN-10: 0813121167
ISBN-13: 9780813121161
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 06/25/1999
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.31w x 0.83d
By Laura C. Mandell
By Laura C. Mandell
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Laura C. Mandell is assistant professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.

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