03449nam 2200781 a 450 991082545550332120240418044638.01-280-49054-397866135857760-8139-2814-1(CKB)2550000000052217(OCoLC)759159942(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495610(SSID)ssj0000566816(PQKBManifestationID)11398786(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566816(PQKBWorkID)10550543(PQKB)10715886(MiAaPQ)EBC3443978(OCoLC)681508240(MdBmJHUP)muse6608(Au-PeEL)EBL3443978(CaPaEBR)ebr10495610(CaONFJC)MIL358577(EXLCZ)99255000000005221720080904d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOur coquettes capacious desire in the eighteenth century /Theresa Braunschneider1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20091 online resource (203 p.) Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"--P. facing t.p.0-8139-2809-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismYoung women in literatureFlirting in literatureSocial interaction in literatureMan-woman relationships in literatureConsumption (Economics) in literatureConsumption (Economics)Great BritainHistory18th centuryYoung womenGreat BritainSocial life and customs18th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Young women in literature.Flirting in literature.Social interaction in literature.Man-woman relationships in literature.Consumption (Economics) in literature.Consumption (Economics)HistoryYoung womenSocial life and customsLiterature and societyHistory820.9/353Braunschneider Theresa1971-1635353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825455503321Our coquettes3976077UNINA