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Autore: |
Braunschneider Theresa <1971->
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Titolo: |
Our coquettes : capacious desire in the eighteenth century / / Theresa Braunschneider
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Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/353 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Our coquettes ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-49054-3 |
9786613585776 | |
0-8139-2814-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825455503321 |
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