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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825455503321
• Autore: Braunschneider Theresa <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-280-49054-3; 9786613585776; 0-8139-2814-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Whereas scholars of the period have generally read the coquette as a simple and self-evident type, Our Coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette to be a touchstone in developing discourses about sexuality, consumerism, empire, and modernity itself. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.