Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel

ISBN-13: 9780754667667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Opis

Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property.

Recenzje

'Deborah Wynne has written an engaging study of the relationship of women to personal property in the Victorian era and how this relationship is depicted in the novels of the time... Wynne writes very well, and her monograph is both thought-provoking and enlightening... I have no hesitation in recommending this very readable and thought-provoking book.' Dickens Quarterly 'Wynne’s book is invigorating in the way it breaks with simplistic accounts of women’s nineteenth-century dispossession.' Victorian Studies '... [Wynne’s] journey through the novels has an infectious enthusiasm which also lays the ground for the application of thing theory to other novels of the period such as those of Gaskell, Collins and Trollope.' English Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Women's performative properties; Circulation and stasis: feminine property in the novels of Charles Dickens; Makeshift links: women and material politics in George Eliot's novels; Property with violence: female possession in the work of Henry James; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester. She is the author of The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine.