Mistress of the House
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Author_Tim Dolin
barbara
Barbara Bodichon
bodichon
Bronte's Fiction
Captain Brown
Caroline Helstone
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Dense
Diana Of The Crossways
domestic fiction analysis
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erinder
eyre
Felice Charmond
Female Enfranchisement
Feme Sole
feminist literary criticism
Gateshead Hall
gender and property
Hardy's Fiction
Independent Women
jane
La Terrasse
laws
Louis Moore
Lucy Snowe
Madding Crowd
married
Married Women
Married Women's Property
Married Women's Property Bill
Married Women's Property Law
Miss Marchmont
nineteenth-century legal reform
patriarchal authority studies
property
rachel
Shirley Keeldar
Signor Brunoni
Victorian literature
Wife's Access
women's
Women's Property
women's property rights in Victorian novels
Product details
- ISBN 9781138267442
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
