Our coquettes : capacious desire in the eighteenth century

Our coquettes : capacious desire in the eighteenth century / Theresa Braunschneider.

Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a newspaper without encountering one. Our coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette...

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Main Author: Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Series:Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Young women in literature.
Flirting in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Consumption (Economics) > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Young women > Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Consumption (Economics)
Consumption (Economics) in literature
English literature
Flirting in literature
Literature and society
Man-woman relationships in literature
Social interaction in literature
Young women in literature
Young women > Social life and customs
Junge Frau > Motiv
Literatur
Great Britain
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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