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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.