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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: I was become, from a Lady of Pleasure, a Woman of Business, and of great Business too, I assure you. -- THREE: I have sometimes wished that it had pleased God to have taken me in mylast fever, when I had everybody's love and good opinion. -- FOUR: with Regard to the young Lady ... my own Observation assured me that she would be an inestimable Treasure to a good Husband. -- FIVE: I live in an age when light begins to appear even in regions that have hitherto been thick darkness |
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SIX: Still she mourned her child, lamented she was a daughter, and anticipated the aggravated ills of life that her sex rendered almost inevitable.SEVEN: He had ... enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor. -- EIGHT Conclusion; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists are of functioning, capable women whose involvement with the getting, keeping, and investing of money provides a ubiquitous theme in the novels of the period. Her Bread to Earn focuses on the images presented by the major novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, those work |
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English |
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Print version record |
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Money in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Literature and society
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Money in literature
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Social problems in literature
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Women and literature
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813159577 |
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0813159571 |
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1322597464 |
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9781322597461 |
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0813118174 |
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9780813118178 |
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