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

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

Clery, E.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 033377731X
ISBN13: 9780333777312
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 20 2004
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
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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