Mistress of the House - Couverture souple

Dolin, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138267449 ISBN 13 : 9781138267442

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138267449
• ISBN 13: 9781138267442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168