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Nussbaum Felicity |
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The brink of all we hate : English satires on women, 1660-1750 / / Felicity Nussbaum |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1984 |
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©1984 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Women in literature |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Satire, English - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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<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> |
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