Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel - Rilegato

Dolin, Tim

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1859281842 ISBN 13: 9781859281840

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1859281842
• ISBN 13: 9781859281840
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 168