Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11506-4
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Livingston, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Silence and Women's Authority Property's History, Property's Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree, and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot Virginia Woolf's Women, Trapped and Freed Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot Why Are Women Poor?

Über Autor(innen)

Sally A. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA.