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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 |
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.