The feminization debate in eighteenth-century England : literature, commerce and luxury

The feminization debate in eighteenth-century England : literature, commerce and luxury / E.J. Clery.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clery, E. J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Series:	Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
Subjects:	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. Honor with Books 2006 Great Britain > Commerce > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

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 a theory of feminization in the Essays of David Hume.