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Whereas scholars of the period have generally read the coquette as a simple and self-evident type, Our Coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette to be a touchstone in developing discourses about sexuality, consumerism, empire, and modernity itself. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.

Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- Literature and society --- Young women --- Consumption (Economics) --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Man-woman relationships in literature. --- Social interaction in literature. --- Flirting in literature. --- Young women in literature. --- Women --- Young adults --- Girls --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- History --- Social life and customs --- History and criticism.