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

E. Clery

The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 August 2004
Pages
234
ISBN
9780333777312

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

E. Clery

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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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