Misogynous Economies : The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

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 Lillo -- Prologue: 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 History -- The 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.

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