Women And Personal Property In The Victorian Novel

Author : Deborah Wynne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134772408
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel written by Deborah Wynne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing culture' in literary texts.

Author : Tim Dolin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135191720X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mistress of the House written by Tim Dolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.

Author : Jill Rappoport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191959356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction written by Jill Rappoport and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels to show how a substantial redistribution of wealth was complicated by competing cultural traditions. The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of England's largest economic transformations as well as one of its most significant challenges to family customs. By the end of this period, wives who had once lost their common-law property rights to husbands regained economic agency, forever altering the legal and theoretical nature of wedlock. Yet legal rights frequently clashed with other family claims, and the reallocation of wealth affected far more than marriage. In nineteenth-century fiction, women's claims to ownership provide insight into the larger social networks forged through property transactions and also offer a lens to examine other social matters, including wills and copyright; evolution; the twin dangers of greed and generosity; inheritance and custody rights; the economic ramifications of family obligation; and the legacy of nineteenth-century economic practices for women today. This book explores the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by fiction that engages with but also diverges from the law. Repeatedly, narratives by Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, and Oliphant suggest both that the law is inadequate to account for the way that property enables and disrupts relationships, and that the form of the Victorian novel - in its ability to track intimate and intricate exchanges across generations - is better suited to such tasks.

Author : Jill Rappoport
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192867261
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction written by Jill Rappoport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels. The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the largest economic transformations England had ever seen, as well as one of its most significant challenges to family traditions. By the end of this period, women who had once lost their common-law property rights to their husbands reclaimed their own assets, regained economic agency, and forever altered the legal and theoretical nature of wedlock by doing so. Yet in literary accounts, reforms were neither as decisive as the law implied nor limited to marriage. Legal rights frequently clashed with other family claims, and the reallocation of wealth affected far more than spouses or the marital state. Competition between wives and children is just one of many ways in which Victorian fiction suggests the perceived benefits and threats of property reform. In nineteenth-century fiction, portrayals of women's claims to ownership provide insight into the social networks forged through property transactions and also offer a lens to examine a wide range of other social matters, including testamentary practices, wills, and copyright law; economic and evolutionary models of mutuality; the twin dangers of greed and generosity; inheritance and custody rights; the economic ramifications of loyalty and family obligation; and the legacy of nineteenth-century economic practices for women today. Understanding the reform of married women's property as both an ideologically and materially substantial redistribution of the nation's wealth as well as one complicated by competing cultural traditions, this book explores the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by fiction that engages with but also diverges from the law in accounts of economic choices and transactions. Repeatedly, narratives by Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, and Oliphant suggest both that the law is inadequate to account for the way that property enables and disrupts relationships, and that the form of the Victorian novel - in its ability to track intimate and intricate exchanges across generations - is better suited to such tasks.

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199533148
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel written by Lisa Rodensky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.

Author : Hanne Birk
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847004522
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pride and Prejudice 2.0 written by Hanne Birk and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been adapted, transformed and translated into numerous languages. Thus the classic today constitutes an international, transcultural, transmedial and iconic phenomenon of pop culture that transcends genre boundaries as easily as centuries. The vitality of the book at the crossroads of the literary canon and pop culture is analysed by contributions focusing on its translations, Bollywood adaptations, iconic TV versions or vlog adaptations, on erotic rewritings or generic transformations into Chick-Lit, crime fiction or the Gothic mode, on teaching contexts or on a diachronic analysis of its illustrations. Complemented by a compilation of student essays, this volume affirms and celebrates Pride and Prejudice being perhaps more alive than ever before.

Author : Briony McDonagh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317145119
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Dermot Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107057213
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Eliot and Money written by Dermot Coleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.

Author : Philip O'Neill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349089001
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins: Women, Property and Propriety written by Philip O'Neill and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost on the centenary of his death, this book studies the novels of Wilkie Collins and attempts to appreciate his representation of Victorian mores. It pays particular attention to Collins' views on sexuality, both male and female, and the laws concerning the distribution of property.

Author : K. Boehm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283653
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture written by K. Boehm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.