Mistress of the House : Women of Property in the Victorian Novel Hardback
by Tim Dolin
Part of the The Nineteenth Century Series series
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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.
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- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/12/1997
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- ISBN:9781859281840
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/12/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9781859281840