TY - BOOK ID - 78950728 TI - Our coquettes: capacious desire in the eighteenth century PY - 2009 SN - 9780813928098 9780813928142 0813928141 0813928095 1280490543 9781280490545 9786613585776 6613585777 PB - Charlottesville, Va University of Virginia Press DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - English literature KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Literature and society KW - Young women KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature. KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Social interaction in literature. KW - Flirting in literature. KW - Young women in literature. KW - Women KW - Young adults KW - Girls KW - Consumer demand KW - Consumer spending KW - Consumerism KW - Spending, Consumer KW - Demand (Economic theory) KW - History KW - Social life and customs KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78950728 AB - 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. ER -