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Mistress of the house : women of property in the Victorian novel / Tim Dolin.

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"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 d...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Dolin, Tim, 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2016]
Edition:First paperback edition.
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Domestic relations in literature.
Economics in literature.
Property in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Domestic fiction, English.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Women and literature.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Women, property, and Victorian fiction
  • A woman, and something more: Shirley
  • Cranford and its belongings
  • "He could get, but not keep": Villette
  • Crimes of property: The moonstone
  • Hardy's uncovered women
  • Mistress of herself: Diana of the crossways
  • Appendix 1. Barbara Bodichon: A brief summary of the laws concerning women (1854)
  • Appendix 2. The Caroline Norton affair.

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