Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian NovelAshgate, 1997 - 153 pàgines 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. |
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Pàgina 12
... Gaskell's Cranford , on the other hand , is described by Jenny Ug- low as ' a riposte to Brontë's hopeless picture of sour , backbiting old maids ' ; and , although it registers ' a protest against inadequate education for girls , ' Ug ...
... Gaskell's Cranford , on the other hand , is described by Jenny Ug- low as ' a riposte to Brontë's hopeless picture of sour , backbiting old maids ' ; and , although it registers ' a protest against inadequate education for girls , ' Ug ...
Pàgina 47
... Gaskell's industrial novels . In Mary Barton , as Gillian Beer points out , Gaskell ' uses individual speech - styles , Manchester songs , life - narratives , in ways that suggest she is trying to make her middle class readers hear and ...
... Gaskell's industrial novels . In Mary Barton , as Gillian Beer points out , Gaskell ' uses individual speech - styles , Manchester songs , life - narratives , in ways that suggest she is trying to make her middle class readers hear and ...
Pàgina 49
... Gaskell , 1976 , p.48 ) and the style that Mary Smith clearly indulges , that informed by Cranford's peculiar ' leisure for the delights of perplexity ' ( p.174 ) . Critical to the history Gaskell is proposing , finally , is the ...
... Gaskell , 1976 , p.48 ) and the style that Mary Smith clearly indulges , that informed by Cranford's peculiar ' leisure for the delights of perplexity ' ( p.174 ) . Critical to the history Gaskell is proposing , finally , is the ...
Continguts
Shirley | 18 |
Cranford and its belongings | 34 |
Villette | 52 |
Copyright | |
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Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance Anne Laurence,Josephine Maltby,Janette Rutterford Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |
A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 Michelle Lamarche Marrese Previsualització limitada - 2002 |