Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 / Ruth...
Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 / Ruth...
Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 / Ruth Perry.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N823.60935/1
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English
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x, 466 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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 pro...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"In Novel Relations, Ruth Perry describes the transformation of the English family as a function of several major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century including the development of a market economy and waged labor, enclosure and the redistribution of land, urbanization, the "rise" of the middle class, and the development of print cu...
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Novel relations : the transformation of kinship in English literature and culture, 1748-1818 / Ruth Perry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N823.60935/1
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74VKqKvldvdl
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0521836948 :
9780521836944
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823.6093552
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991020211409702626
