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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury

By E. J. Clery (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
ISBN
978-0-333-77732-9, 978-0-230-50904-7, 1-4039-3408-8, 1-4039-3409-6
DOI
10.1057/9780230509047
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31323121 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Edition
1
Pages
XI, 234\245
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
British and Irish Literature; Eighteenth-Century Lgeneral; Fiction; Early Modern/Renaissance Literat

Description

In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.

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