Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel
DOWNLOAD
Download Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel
DOWNLOAD
Author : April London
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-28
Women And Property In The Eighteenth Century English Novel written by April London and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West. While this study focuses on fiction from 1740–1800, it also draws on the historiography, literary criticism and philosophy of the period, and on recent feminist and cultural studies.
Women And Property
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amy Louise Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Women And Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.
Women Accounting And Narrative
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rebecca E. Connor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-04-22
Women Accounting And Narrative written by Rebecca E. Connor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel.
The Representation Of Women In Early 18th Century England
DOWNLOAD
Author : Claudia Wipprecht
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11
The Representation Of Women In Early 18th Century England written by Claudia Wipprecht and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultät), course: The Rise of English Journalism in the Early 18th Century, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I) The first half of the 18th century The important essay by John Locke Essay concerning human understanding (1690) made an exceptionally high impact in the 18th century. His rejection of Descartes' 'innate ideas' constituted the basis for the discussion about abilities and rights of women in the 18th century. A.R. Humphreys noted: "Throughout the century a skirmish went on between conservatives who argued for the grand principle of subordination and progressives, who, guided by the clear light of reason, contended for woman's rational and social equality."1 The married woman was considered to have neither rights nor property due to the fact that with the marriage all her property exchanged automatically to her husband. The ideal of marriage in the 18th century is described by W.L. Blease: " ... the ideal of marriage had been brought to its lowest possible level [...] it emphasized the sexual side of the connection, and almost entirely disregarded the spiritual."2 The average age for marrying rested with 17 years, which was the reason that most young women could not satisfy their positions as mothers. The only profession women could have was that of a wife and mother; as Blease said "A respectable woman was nothing but the potential mother of children."3. However, there was the problem of a surplus of women. Some women had the possibility to teach children, which was not very high regarded. Most women, however, had only the possibility to prostitute themselves which was a crucial problem of this times (Einhoff, 1980: 35). Terms like 'the fair sex', 'the soft sex' and 'the gentle sex' designated the relationship of the sexes; the weak and tender woman needs to be protected by the st
Women Property And The Letters Of The Law In Early Modern England
DOWNLOAD
Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Women Property And The Letters Of The Law In Early Modern England written by Margaret W. Ferguson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.
Married Women S Separate Property In England 1660 1833
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan Staves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Married Women S Separate Property In England 1660 1833 written by Susan Staves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
A critical history of the laws governing married women's property in England. Analyzing the laws and the ideology underpinning them, Staves (English, Brandeis U.) shows that while the judges had some room to maneuver, they chose to act on (and act out) their own prejudices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Women Accounting And Narrative
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rebecca E. Connor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-04-22
Women Accounting And Narrative written by Rebecca E. Connor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. However, just as women were seen as financial accountants, they were also deeply associated with the literary and narrative accounting inherent in letters and diaries. These are examined alongside property, originality and the development of the early novel.
Property Education And Identity In Late Eighteenth Century Fiction
DOWNLOAD
Author : V. Cope
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-05-29
Property Education And Identity In Late Eighteenth Century Fiction written by V. Cope and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-29 with Fiction categories.
This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alessa Johns
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Engendering Legitimacy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan Glover
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2006
Engendering Legitimacy written by Susan Glover and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.