LEADER 03939nam 22006732 450 001 9910455346403321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-11675-9 010 $a0-521-03254-7 010 $a1-280-15381-4 010 $a0-511-11751-5 010 $a0-511-14970-0 010 $a0-511-32452-9 010 $a0-511-48436-4 010 $a0-511-05202-2 035 $a(CKB)111004366731736 035 $a(EBL)142407 035 $a(OCoLC)191035665 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273170 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212049 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273170 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10313483 035 $a(PQKB)11673587 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484360 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC142407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL142407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014988 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15381 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366731736 100 $a20090224d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen and property in the eighteenth-century English novel /$fApril London$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-511-00577-6 311 $a0-521-65013-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 242-257) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Samuel Richardson and Georgic. Clarissa and the georgic mode -- Making meaning as constructive labor -- Wicked condfederacies -- "The work of bodies" : reading, writing, and documents -- pt. 2. Pastoral. The man of feeling -- Colonial narratives : Charles Wentworth and The female American -- pt. 3. Community and confederacy. Versions of community : William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve -- Confederacies of women : Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler -- pt. 4. The politics of reading. The discourse of manliness : Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage -- The gendering of radical representation -- History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' "common sense" -- Jane West and the politics of reading. 330 $aThis 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 advanced 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 self-possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Two contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West. While this study focuses on fiction from 1740-1800, it also draws on the historiography, literary criticism and philosophy of the period, and on recent feminist and cultural studies. 517 3 $aWomen & Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aProperty in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aProperty in literature. 676 $a823/.809355 700 $aLondon$b April$0686487 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455346403321 996 $aWomen and property in the eighteenth-century English novel$91270267 997 $aUNINA