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

In 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	E. Clery
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-77731-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-333-77731-X
Barcode:	9780333777312

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