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Author Tadmor, Naomi.

Title Family and friends in eighteenth-century England : household, kinship, and patronage / Naomi Tadmor.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-302) and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The concept of the household-family; 2 The concept of the household-family in novels and conduct treatises; 3 The concept of the lineage-family; 4 The language of kinship; 5 Friends; 6 Political friends; 7 Ideas about friendship and the constructions of friendship in literary texts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Naomi Tadmor presents a new description of how family structures operated in eighteenth-century England starting from an analysis of contemporary language (in diaries; conduct treatises; novels by Richardson and Haywood; and other sources). Her book will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars of the period.
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Subject England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
England.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Patronage, Political -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Patronage, Political.
History.
Households -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Households.
Friendship -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Friendship.
Kinship -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Kinship.
Families -- England -- 18th century.
Families.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Friendships.
Other Form: Print version: Tadmor, Naomi. Family and friends in eighteenth-century England. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521771471 (DLC) 00020000 (OCoLC)43311663
ISBN 0511019300 (electronic book)
9780511019302 (electronic book)
0511049536
9780511049538
051111835X (electronic book)
9780511118357 (electronic book)
9780521771474 (hardback)
0521771471 (hardback)
9780511496097 (electronic book)
0511496095 (electronic book)
1280154667
9781280154669