Our Coquettes: Capacious Desire in the Eighteenth Century

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accessories of coquette: fans, 2, 4, 52–56, 89, 94, 145, 148; lapdogs, 7, 39–40, 43, 56–63, 145, 148. See also coquette, as consumer Accomplish’d Governess, The, 75 Addison, Joseph, 7, 32, 42, 43, 47, 84. See also Spectator; Tatler Ainsworth, Robert, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius, 26–27 Armstrong, Nancy, 8–9 Astell, Mary, Some Reflections on Marriage, 21, 98, 101 Bailey, Nathan, Dictionarium Brittanicum, 27 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 134 Blackstone, William, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 172n1 Blount, Thomas, Glossographia, 27 Boyer, Abel: Royal Dictionary, 27–28; Characters of the Virtues and Vices of the Age, 29 British Empire, 40, 86, 88–90. See also trade, international Brown, Laura, 7, 33, 40, 42, 82, 84, 89, 171n16 Brown, Thomas, The Paradise of Coquettes, 141 Burney, Frances: Evelina, 76–77, 138; Camilla, 138 capacious desire. See choice; consumer culture; coquetry, as many-to-one relation; coquette, as consumer; polyamory capitalism, 7, 9, 12, 40, 42–43, 56, 62– 63, 84, 88–90, 159n1, 166n3. See also consumer culture; coquette, as consumer; trade, international Carey, Henry, “The Rival Lap-Dog,” 60 choice, 2, 6, 8, 10–15, 20–23, 40, 97– 100, 103–5, 111–12, 117, 118–19, 122, 126–27, 138, 149, 157 Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, “To the Ladies,” 100–101 Cibber, Colley, Love’s Last Shift, 30–31 Clery, E. J., 42 commerce. See capitalism; consumer culture; trade, international Congreve, William, 7; The Way of the World, 33–35, 150 Index 185 consumer culture, 2, 4–6, 7, 8, 9, 12–13, 19–20, 32, 38, 39–63, 66, 71, 83–84, 86–88, 99, 120, 148, 165n1 coquetry: defended, 20–23, 108–9, 116, 121–22, 148; as lack of discrimination, 5, 6, 39, 40, 50, 57–58, 63, 72, 75, 77–80, 100, 112, 117, 120, 126–27, 128, 148; as many-to-one relation, 1, 5, 6, 8, 12–15, 17–18, 20, 22–23, 31, 33–34, 39, 72, 75–77, 82, 85–89, 104–8, 114, 119–21, 128, 145; as motion, 4, 5–6, 7, 13, 34, 52, 65, 73–74, 78–79, 91, 94–96, 100; as resistance to marriage, 7, 10, 12–13, 34, 62, 95, 100–137, 148, 149; as skill, 33, 43–46, 52–54, 64, 74, 79–80, 148, 167n10; as temporary state, 89–90, 146 coquette: changing portrayal of, over time, 6, 138, 140–57; as consumer, 5, 12, 19–20, 40–63, 71, 84–87, 88–90, 99, 100, 126, 146, 148; emergence as an English word, 3, 26–28, 159n2, 161n1; emergence as a type, 1–5, 25–26, 28–32, 163n7, 163n8; fickleness of, 4–5, 23, 34, 39–40, 41, 47–48, 49–50, 57, 60, 62, 69, 77, 93, 135–36; general description of, 1–2, 4–5; knowingness toward, 3–4, 8, 33, 36, 48, 68–69, 71, 89, 146–47; male, 152–53n5; past scholarly treatment of, 8, 10, 16, 18–20, 30, 31, 42–43, 101–3, 140; reformed, 6, 99–102, 105–28, 135–38, 143–44, 149, 150, 152; as representative of her time, 2–4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10–13, 24, 25–26, 28, 29, 32–33, 36, 37–38, 42–43, 48, 62–63, 66–67, 71–73, 74–78, 81, 96, 101, 104, 138, 141, 146, 157; tragic, 6, 140–42, 143, 146, 148, 150–56; treated with indulgence, 5, 23–24, 32–38, 54, 70–71, 138, 140–42, 145; vanity of, 4, 37, 41, 43, 53, 62, 72, 82–84, 91–93, 142, 144, 146, 155. See also accessories of coquette; coquetry Cotgrave, Randle, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, 27, 161n1 courtship, 6, 10, 12, 20–23, 24, 42, 60, 62–63, 70, 95, 99, 100–101, 115, 117, 121, 130, 133, 137, 148, 156 coverture, 99, 115–16, 172n1 Davys, Mary, The Reform’d Coquet, 92, 99–103, 105–19, 120, 121, 123– 25, 126–28, 129, 131, 133, 135–38, 140, 142, 146–47, 148 Dictionary of Love, The, 93 Dryden, John, An Evening’s Love, 30 Edgeworth, Maria, Belinda, 138 Essex, John, The Young Ladies Conduct, 36 Farquhar, George, The Twin Rivals, 31 fans. See under accessories of coquette fashion, 44–48, 51–52, 73, 76, 82. See also consumer culture; coquette, as consumer; capitalism; modernity Felski, Rita, 9 female-female affiliations. See homoeroticism Finch, Anne, 7, 43; “Ardelia’s Answer to Ephelia,” 45–46, 70–71, 87 flirt...