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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333777312)
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xIn the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury, and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.
Author: E. Clery
ISBN-10: 033377731X
ISBN-13: 9780333777312
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2004
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.70w x 0.72d
Author: E. Clery
ISBN-10: 033377731X
ISBN-13: 9780333777312
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2004
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.70w x 0.72d
By E. Clery
xE. J. CLERY is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (1995) and Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (2000), co-editor of Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 and Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, and has published widely on Eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature and culture.
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