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

by E.J. Clery

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In the eighteenth century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy while others celebrated the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study demonstrates 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 in the 1690s, reappraises misogynist representations in the work...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333777328

ISBN13:9780333777329

Release Date:July 2004

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:234 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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