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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457312303321

Autore

Braunschneider Theresa <1971->

Titolo

Our coquettes [[electronic resource] ] : capacious desire in the eighteenth century / / Theresa Braunschneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

1-280-49054-3

9786613585776

0-8139-2814-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"--P. facing t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A prelude: the novelty of coquetry -- The people that things make: coquettes and consumer culture -- The coquette here and there: a cartography of coquetry -- Women who choose too much: reforming the coquette -- A postlude: the coquette's demise.