Our coquettes [electronic resource] : capacious desire in the eighteenth century / Theresa Braunschneider.
Series: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studiesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.Description: ix, 189 pSubject(s):- 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
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- PR448.F55 B73 2009eb
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"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"--P. facing t.p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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