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Our coquettes : capacious desire in the eighteenth century /
Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a newspaper without encountering one. Our coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a newspaper without encountering one. Our coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette to be a touchstone in developing discourses about sexuality, consumerism, empire, and modernity itself. --Book jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813928142 0813928141 1280490543 9781280490545 9786613585776 6613585777 |