Our coquettes
Subtitle: capacious desire in the eighteenth century
By: Theresa Braunschneider.
Series: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780813928098; 9780813928142
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Young women in literature; Flirting in literature; Social interaction in literature; Man-woman relationships in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Young women -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A prelude: the novelty of coquetry; title: The people that things make: coquettes and consumer culture; title: The coquette here and there: a cartography of coquetry; title: Women who choose too much: reforming the coquette; title: A postlude: the coquette's demise.