Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760

by Ingrid H. Tague

An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change.

Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851159079
• ISBN13: 9780851159072
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"