S. Livingston

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-29637-8
• 1st ed. 2012
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781349296378
• ISBN-10: 1349296376
• Artikelnr.: 45077559

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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?