Title Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 / Ruth Perry

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 466 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The great disinheritance; 2 Fathers and daughters; 3 Sister-right and the bonds of consanguinity; 4 Brotherly love in life and literature; 5 Privatized marriage and property relations; 6 Sexualized marriage and property in the person; 7 Farming fiction: Arthur Young and the problem of representation; 8 The importance of aunts; 9 Family feeling; Bibliography; Index Summary Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-448) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Families in literature. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism Families -- Great Britain -- 18th century Marriage in literature. Kinship in literature. Women in literature. Families -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Domestic fiction, English English fiction Families Families in literature Kinship in literature Marriage in literature Women and literature Women in literature Familierelaties. Fictie. Engels. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511211287 9780511211287 0521836948 9780521836944 0511213050 9780511213052 0511216653 9780511216657 9780511484438 0511484437 1280540222 9781280540226 9780521687904 052168790X 1107150213 9781107150218 0511214863 9780511214868 0511315422 9780511315428

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