Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.
Contents:
From discourse to a theory of feminization in the Essays of David Hume. The Athenian Mercury and the Pindarick lady -- The South Sea Bubble and the resurgence of misogyny : Cato, Mandeville and Defoe -- Elizabeth Carter in Pope's garden : literary women of the 1730s -- Clarissa and the "total revolution in manners" -- Out of the closet : Richardson and the cult of literary women -- Coda : From discourse to a theory of feminization in the Essays of David Hume.
Series:
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
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