March 24, 2000

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By PETER MONAGHAN

Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Laura Mandell (University Press of Kentucky)

Antifemale sentiment was rife in the writings of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and many lesser-known 18th-century British authors. Ms. Mandell, an assistant professor of English at Miami University, in Ohio, argues that the sentiment was not merely sexist; it had varied rhetorical functions. For example, it served to make emerging capitalism attractive when

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