Title
- Palgrave Studies In The Enlightenment, Romanticism, And The Cultures Of Print
Attribution
E.J. CleryPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR448.F45 C54 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English literature — 18th century — History and criticism
- Feminism and literature — England — History — 18th century
- Women and literature — England — History — 18th century
- English literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- Feminism — England — History — 18th century
- Luxury — History — 18th century
- Femininity in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Feminism in literature
- Luxury in literature
- Women in literature
- Great Britain — Commerce — History — 18th century
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Contents
- 1. Sexual alchemy in the coffee-house
- 2. The Athenian Mercury and the Pindarick Lady
- 3. The South Sea Bubble and the resurgence of misogyny : Cato, Mandeville, and Defoe
- 4. Elizabeth Carter in Pope’s garden : literary women of the 1730s
- 5. Clarissa and the ‘total revolution in manners’
- 6. Out of the closet : Richardson and the cult of literary women
- Coda : from discourse to a theory of feminization in the essays of David Hume
ISBN
- 0333777328
- 033377731x
- 033377731x
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