Clery The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England

Literature, Commerce and Luxury
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-230-50904-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clery, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Theory of Feminization in the Essays of David Hume Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

E. J. CLERY is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of (1995) and (2000), co-editor of and , and has published widely on Eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature and culture.