Marriage, Property, and Women''s Narratives

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Sally A. Livingston is Assistant Professor of Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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?

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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?

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• Authors: Livingston, S Livingston, S. Livingston, Sally Livingston, Sally A. Livingston, LIVINGSTON SALLY A
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9780230115064
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11506-4
• No. of pages: 241
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft: Antike und Mittelalter, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages