Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel by April London

Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel by April London

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 offered 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 forms of possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Her wide-ranging study discusses the work of a variety of writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West.

'April London's fascinating study of the eighteenth-century novel offers a sustained investigation of the 'ways in which the signal importance of property to the eighteenth century is both affirmed and complicated when women are included in the account' Review of English Studies

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ISBN 13	9780521650137
ISBN 10	0521650135
Title	Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Author	April London
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1999-06-28
Number of pages	276
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