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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460688803321

Autore

Nussbaum Felicity

Titolo

The brink of all we hate : English satires on women, 1660-1750 / / Felicity Nussbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1984

©1984

ISBN

0-8131-6407-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

827/.4/09352042

Soggetti

Women in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Satire, English - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; II. Rhyming Women Dead: Restoration Satires on Women; III. The Better Women: The Amazon Myth and Hudibras; IV. ""That Lost Thing, Love"": Women and Impotence in Rochester's Poetry; V. Rara Avis in Terris: Translations of Juvenal's Sixth Satire; VI. ""The Sex's Flight"": Women and Time in Swift's Poetry; VII. Enemies and Enviers: Minor Eighteenth-Century Satires; VIII. ""The Glory, Jest, and Riddle of the Town"": Women in Pope's Poetry; IX. Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T

UV; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

<P>Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire in the Restoration and eighteenth century, and exploring its uses, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the period will be read anew.</P>