How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights;...
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of lite...
Charlotte BrontE Legacies and afterlives offers a timely reflection on the author's life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her birth. BrontE's legacy continues to evolve and the new essays in this volume, covering the period from her first publication to the present day, explain why she has remained at the forefront of western, indeed global, literary cultures.
The contributors to this volume engage innovatively with the rich variety of afterlives enjoyed by characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema and television, on the...
Charlotte BrontE Legacies and afterlives offers a timely reflection on the author's life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her...
