Title Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel / April London

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) 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 Summary "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 those denied a full civic identity. Two contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-257) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Property in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Property in literature Women and literature Frauenroman Besitz Motiv Frau Motiv Grundeigentum Motiv Roman 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. Femmes -- Dans la littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle. Littérature et société -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle. Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Propriété -- Dans la littérature. Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire et critique. Geschichte 1740-1800. Geschichte 1700-1800. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511005776 9780511005770 0511036787 9780511036781 9780521650137 0521650135 0511052022 9780511052026 0511117515 9780511117510 9780511484360 0511484364 9786610153817 6610153817

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