Ruth Perry's major study describes the transformation of the English family, as represented in fiction, in the context of major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century. These include 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 culture.
Ruth Perry's major study describes the transformation of the English family, as represented in fiction, in the context of major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century. These include 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 culture.
Ruth Perry is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Introduction 1. The great disinheritance 2. Fathers and daughters 3. Sister-right and the bonds of consanguinity 4. Brotherly love in life 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.
Introduction 1. The great disinheritance 2. Fathers and daughters 3. Sister-right and the bonds of consanguinity 4. Brotherly love in life 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.
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