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Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel // April London.
remainder title:	Women & Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Author:	London, April,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 18th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484360
ISBN:	9780511484360 (ebook)

Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel /
London, April,

Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel /Women & Property in the Eighteenth-Century English NovelApril London. - 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

pt. 1. Samuel Richardson and Georgic. Clarissa and the georgic mode -- Making meaning as constructive labor -- Wicked condfederacies -- "The work of bodies" : reading, writing, and documents -- pt. 2. Pastoral. The man of feeling -- Colonial narratives : Charles Wentworth and The female American -- pt. 3. Community and confederacy. Versions of community : William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve -- Confederacies of women : Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler -- pt. 4. The politics of reading. The discourse of manliness : Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage -- The gendering of radical representation -- History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' "common sense" -- Jane West and the politics of reading.

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.

ISBN: 9780511484360 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570104
English fiction
--History and criticism.--18th century

LC Class. No.: PR858.W6 / L66 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809355

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