| Description |
1 online resource (x, 466 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-448) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 interest to social and literary historians. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Families in literature.
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Families in literature. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Domestic fiction, English. |
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Families -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
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Families. |
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Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature. |
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Kinship in literature.
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Kinship in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perry, Ruth, 1943- Novel relations. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003064022 |
| ISBN |
0511211287 |
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9780511211287 |
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0521836948 |
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9780521836944 |
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0511213050 |
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9780511213052 |
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0511216653 |
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9780511216657 |
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9780511484438 (ebook) |
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0511484437 (ebook) |
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1280540222 |
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9781280540226 |
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