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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England - Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Paperback) Loot Price: R3,116
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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England - Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Paperback): E. Clery

The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England - Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Paperback)

E. Clery

Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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In the eighteenth century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy while others celebrated the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study demonstrates 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 in the 1690s, reappraises misogynist representations in the work of Mandeville, Defoe and Pope in the light of the stock market crash of 1720, and considers in detail the turbulent careers of the poets Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Elizabeth Carter. The novels of Samuel Richardson represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization. Clery's book is essential reading not only for students of eighteenth-century literature, but for those interested in the emergence of commercial ideology and the evolution of theories of gender.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Release date: July 2004
First published: 2004
Authors: E. Clery
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-77732-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
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LSN: 0-333-77732-8
Barcode: 9780333777329

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