Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818

ISBN-13: 9780521836944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 480 str.

Ruth Perry

Opis

Ruth Perry's major study describes the transformation of the English family, as represented in fiction, in the context of major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century. These include the development of a market economy and waged labor, enclosure and the redistribution of land, urbanization, the 'rise' of the middle class, and the development of print culture.

Recenzje

'… engrossing book'. The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The great disinheritance; 2. Fathers and daughters; 3. Sister-right and the bonds of consanguinity; 4. Brotherly love in life literature; 5. Privatized marriage and property relations; 6. Sexualized marriage and property in the person; 7. Farming fiction: Arthur Young and the problem of representation; 8. The importance of aunts; 9. Family feeling.