Her Bread To Earn : Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen /

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Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu...

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Main Author: Scheuermann, Mona
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Social problems in literature.
Money in literature.
Literature and society.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists are of functioning, capable women whose involvement with the getting, keeping, and investing of money provides a ubiquitous theme in the novels of the period. Her Bread to Earn focuses on the images presented by the major novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, those work.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780813159577

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