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The feminization debate in eighteenth-century England Literature, commerce and luxury /

'The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England is an elegantly written, trenchant and persuasive analysis of how the category of the feminine was used in order to chart economic growth and to assess its impact on the social fabric of England. Particularly in the Introduction, Clery prov...

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Main Authors: Clery, E.J.
Published:
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Gender studies: women.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230509047
Summary: 'The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England is an elegantly written, trenchant and persuasive analysis of how the category of the feminine was used in order to chart economic growth and to assess its impact on the social fabric of England. Particularly in the Introduction, Clery provides a useful overview of historical and literary scholarship of the period and throughout she illuminates the study of feminism in general and its English history in particular by showing how discourses of the feminine were largely (though not exclusively) about masculinity, virtue, and authority in an emerging commercial economy. This consistently original and provocative study fulfils its promise to restore a sense of wonder to the early history of capitalism and in the process impressively inaugurates the 'Palgrave Studies in The Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print' series.' - Professor Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University, USA.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2004.
Carrier Form: 248 p.
ISBN: 9780333777312
9780230509047 :
0230509045 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Theory of Feminization in the Essays of David Hume Notes Bibliography Index.

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