{"product_id":"mistress-of-the-house","title":"Mistress of the House","description":"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.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244278600024,"sku":"9781859281840","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781859281840.jpg?v=1770254118","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mistress-of-the-house","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}