Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

by Sally A. Livingston

Book Overview

Silence and Women's Authority Property's History, Property's Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree, and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot Virginia Woolf's Women, Trapped and Freed Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot Why Are Women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349296376
• ISBN13: 9781349296378
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"