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 : 4.06/5 ( 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.

Author : Elizabeth Bergen Brophy
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813010366
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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 By drawing upon thousands of unpublished documents from the era, written by more than 250 women, Brophy creates a picture of the real lives of eighteenth-century women and then examines the work of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.

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785577
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( 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.

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802087577
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : V. Cope
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230239544
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Alessa Johns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028410
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : April London
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895359
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( 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.

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 : Gary Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163905
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( 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 273 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.

Author : Elaine M. McGirr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137061227
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( 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.