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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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April London |
| ISBN: | 0521650135 9780521650137 |
| OCLC Number: | 39523533 |
| Description: | ix, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | April London. |
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A study of the importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in fiction.
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'April London's fascinating study of the eighteenth-century novel offers a sustained investigation of the 'ways in which the signal importance of property to the eighteenth century is both affirmed and complicated when women are included in the account.' Review of English Studies Read more...
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- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Property in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
- Propriété dans la littérature.
- Vrouwen.
- Romans.
- Engels.
- Bezit.
- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer.
- Besitz -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer.
- Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Besitz.
- Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Frau.
- Frau -- Besitz -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Roman -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1740-1800.
- Besitz -- Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Roman -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1740-1800.
- Roman -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Besitz -- Frau -- Geschichte -- 1740-1800.
- Frauenroman.
- Besitz (Motiv)
- Geschichte 1740-1800.
- Roman.
- Frau (Motiv)
- Grundeigentum (Motiv)
- Geschichte 1700-1800.
- Englisch.
- Femmes -- Dans la littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle.
- Littérature et société -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle.
- Propriété -- Dans la littérature.
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire et critique.
