Polishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorMargerison, Kenneth
dc.contributor.authorMerritt, Lisa D.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBourgeois, Gene
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMcWilliams, James
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T14:32:33Z
dc.date.available2013-09-06T14:32:33Z
dc.date.issued2013-08
dc.description.abstractThroughout the latter decades of the eighteenth century, popular print culture was a central arena for the negotiation of competing societal discourses. As the cultural narratives of elite libertine enlightenment and middle-class propriety vied for cultural dominance, their respective constructions of women, of acceptable femininity, and of female sexuality became a point of significant contention. This project traces the changing dynamics of that struggle for cultural hegemony through the changing depiction of elite courtesans and female sexuality in popular print culture.
dc.description.departmentHistory
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent109 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationMerritt, L. D. (2013). Polishing the public sphere: Courtesans and female virtue in eighteenth-century British print culture (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/4706
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectsexuality
dc.subjectprint culture
dc.subjectcourtesans
dc.subjectEngland
dc.subjecteighteenth century
dc.subjectLondon
dc.titlePolishing the Public Sphere: Courtesans and Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University-San Marcos
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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