Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

by April London

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032547
• ISBN13: 9780521032544
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"