Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 /
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 inter...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=164315 |
Aurkibidea:
- 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.