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Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel
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Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel

Author: April London
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: 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.
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