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Our coquettes

Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-

Our coquettes capacious desire in the eighteenth century / [electronic resource] : Theresa Braunschneider. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009. - ix, 189 p. - Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies .

"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Young women in literature.
Flirting in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Young women--Social life and customs--Great Britain--18th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.


Electronic books.

PR448.F55 / B73 2009eb

820.9/353

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