Misogynous economies the business of literature in eighteenth-century Britain
The eighteenth century saw the birth of the concept of literature as business: literature critiqued and promoted capitalism, and books themselves became highly marketable canonical objects. During this period, misogynous representations of women often served to advance capitalist desires and to redi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3471554x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Misogyny and Literariness: Dryden, Pope, and Swift; Misogyny in the Ideal; Satiric Pleasure; Abjection and Literature; 2. Capitalism and Rape: Thomas Otway's The Orphan; From Courtier to Competitor: Regulating Expenditure; Two Kinds of Business in The Orphan; The Business of Rape; The Pleasures of Hatred; The Sacrificial Crisis; The South Sea Bubble: The Crisis ""Legally"" Resolved; Fictional Scapegoats: Tragedy; Scapegoating to Uphold the New System; A Difference That Works?
- 3. Engendering Capitalist Desire: Filthy Bawds and Thoroughly Good Merchants in Mandeville and LilloPrologue: The Desire to Consume; Profiteering: Filthy versus Clean; Feminism, Capitalism, Aesthetics; Staging Difference; Propaganda versus the Literary; 4. Misogyny and Feminism: Mary Leapor; The Antiblason as Progressivist Literary History; Misogyny and the Literary Assault on Empiricism; The Instability of Parody as Critique; Leapor's Literary Criticism and Ours; Conclusion: Misogyny and Patriarchy; 5. Misogyny and the Canon: The Character of Women in Anthologies of Poetry.
- The Exclusion of Women Writers from the Anthology and British Poetic Literary HistoryThe Shift from Miscellany to Anthology Form: Use of the Body Metaphor; Curiosity versus Identity; Expelling the Female Body and Aestheticizing the Text; Canonicity and Character: The Ethics of Revision; 6. Transcending Misogyny: Anna Letitia Barbauld Writes Her Way Out; Poetry and Salvation; Melancholia: Internalized Feudalism; Community; The Transcendent (Female) Body; Abjection; The Fantasy Underlying a Dissenting Aesthetic; An Alternate Aesthetic, Rejected; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
