Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel

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Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Author : April London
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426206
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel written by April London and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. While this study focuses on fiction from 1740–1800, it also draws on the historiography, literary criticism and philosophy of the period, and on recent feminist and cultural studies.

Women's Lives and the 18th-century English Novel

Author : Elizabeth Bergen Brophy
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813010366
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Lives and the 18th-century English Novel by : Elizabeth Bergen Brophy

Download or read book Women's Lives and the 18th-century English Novel written by Elizabeth Bergen Brophy and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1991 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novels of the eighteenth century usually offer wedded bliss as a reward to their heroines. How did these novels affect—and how were they affected by—the women who were reading them? By drawing upon thousands of unpublished documents from the era, written by more than 250 women, Brophy creates a picture of the real lives of eighteenth-century women and then examines the work of seven novelists in relation to this portrait. Excerpts from letters, diaries, and journals, written by women ranging from servants to nobility, reveal the stages of feminine life in the 1700s: dutiful daughter, courted maiden, obedient wife, and pitiful widow or spinster. Their lives are assessed against those portrayed in the works of seven novelists—five women (Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve and Fanny Burney) and two men (Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson). Fiction both reflects and creates the values of its time. In the eighteenth century, marriage was regarded as every woman's vocation and the novel often reinforced this conviction. “Only leave me myself,” the heroine's plea in Richardson's Clarissa, laments the dependent position of women in the age. However, the novel also influenced the self-perception of eighteenth-century women in a positive way, Brophy asserts, by admiring their intelligence, by condemning sexual transgressions in and out of marriage, and, most important, by placing women at the center of their own stories, as heroines in their own right. The abundant primary materials and straightforward writing in Women's Lives and the Eigtheenth-Century English Novel make this a book of interest to scholars of social and cultural history and to students of the novel.

Women, Accounting and Narrative

Author : Rebecca E. Connor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134698437
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Women, Accounting and Narrative written by Rebecca E. Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802087577
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England by : Margaret W. Ferguson

Download or read book Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.

Women and Property

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785577
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women and Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.

Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Author : Linda Zionkowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317240472
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction written by Linda Zionkowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings of the gift's rationale, purpose, and function. Drawing on materials such as sermons, conduct books, works of political philosophy, and tracts on social reform, Zionkowski challenges the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. Instead, by shifting attention to the gift system as it was imagined and enacted in the formative years of the novel, the volume offers an innovative understanding of how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community. Through theoretically-informed readings of Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer, and Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma, the book foregrounds the issues of donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at the center of these conflicts. As this study reveals, the exchanges that eighteenth-century fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing power and importance of gift transactions in the midst of an increasingly commercial culture. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, economic literary criticism, women and gender studies, and book history.

Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833

Author : Susan Staves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674436190
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 written by Susan Staves and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Author : V. Cope
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230239544
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction by : V. Cope

Download or read book Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction written by V. Cope and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.

Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century

Author : Alessa Johns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028410
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century by : Alessa Johns

Download or read book Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.

Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830

Author : Briony McDonagh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317145119
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 by : Briony McDonagh

Download or read book Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 written by Briony McDonagh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 offers a detailed study of elite women’s relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women’s role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women’s place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Women and the Law of Property in Early America

Author : Marylynn Salmon
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Law of Property in Early America written by Marylynn Salmon and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Law of Property in Early America

The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author : April London
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895359
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by April London and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.

The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163905
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook written by Gary Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts Guides to key critics, concepts and topics An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research Case studies in reading literary and critical texts Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook is an invaluable introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century.

Law, Land, and Family

Author : Eileen Spring
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864706
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Law, Land, and Family written by Eileen Spring and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance under which--had they prevailed--40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women. Current ideas of family development portray female inheritance as increasing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but Spring argues that this is a misperception, resulting from an incomplete consideration of the common-law rules. Female rights actually declined, reaching their nadir in the eighteenth century. Spring shows that there was a centuries-long conflict between male and female heirs, a conflict that has not been adequately recognized until now.

The Representation of Women in Early 18th Century England

Author : Claudia Wipprecht
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638814084
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book The Representation of Women in Early 18th Century England written by Claudia Wipprecht and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultät), course: The Rise of English Journalism in the Early 18th Century, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I) The first half of the 18th century The important essay by John Locke Essay concerning human understanding (1690) made an exceptionally high impact in the 18th century. His rejection of Descartes' 'innate ideas' constituted the basis for the discussion about abilities and rights of women in the 18th century. A.R. Humphreys noted: "Throughout the century a skirmish went on between conservatives who argued for the grand principle of subordination and progressives, who, guided by the clear light of reason, contended for woman's rational and social equality."1 The married woman was considered to have neither rights nor property due to the fact that with the marriage all her property exchanged automatically to her husband. The ideal of marriage in the 18th century is described by W.L. Blease: " ... the ideal of marriage had been brought to its lowest possible level [...] it emphasized the sexual side of the connection, and almost entirely disregarded the spiritual."2 The average age for marrying rested with 17 years, which was the reason that most young women could not satisfy their positions as mothers. The only profession women could have was that of a wife and mother; as Blease said "A respectable woman was nothing but the potential mother of children."3. However, there was the problem of a surplus of women. Some women had the possibility to teach children, which was not very high regarded. Most women, however, had only the possibility to prostitute themselves which was a crucial problem of this times (Einhoff, 1980: 35). Terms like 'the fair sex', 'the soft sex' and 'the gentle sex' designated the relationship of the sexes; the weak and tender woman needs to be protected by the st

Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833

Author : Susan Staves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 written by Susan Staves and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of the laws governing married women's property in England. Analyzing the laws and the ideology underpinning them, Staves (English, Brandeis U.) shows that while the judges had some room to maneuver, they chose to act on (and act out) their own prejudices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Eighteenth-Century Characters

Author : Elaine M. McGirr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137061227
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Characters written by Elaine M. McGirr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as: - The rake and the fop - The country gentleman - The good woman - The coquette and the prude - The country maid and the town lady - The Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other. Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.