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Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel /
"This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London argues that contemporary novels advanced several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of women to property, ranging from s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London argues that contemporary novels advanced several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of women to property, ranging from straightforward assertions of equivalence between women and things to subtle explorations of the self-possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Two contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511005776 9780511005770 0511036787 9780511036781 9780521650137 0521650135 0511052022 9780511052026 0511117515 9780511117510 9780511484360 0511484364 9786610153817 6610153817 |