Family Fictions : Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1798 /
By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social nor...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1 Toward an Eighteenth-Century Anthropology
- 2 From Family Romance to Domestic Scandal: "Female Arts" in The Fair Jilt
- 3 Robinson Crusoe and the Orphaned Family
- 4 The Anxiety of Affluence: Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
- 5 The Erotic and the Domestic in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
- 6 Disavowing Kinship, 1760-1798
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index