Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
Contents
Sexual alchemy in the coffee-house -- Athenian Mercury and the Pindarick lady -- 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.