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