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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Women's performative properties; Circulation and stasis: feminine property in the novels of Charles Dickens; Makeshift links: women and material politics in George Eliot's novels; Property with violence: female possession in the work of Henry James; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester. She is the author of The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine.
'Deborah Wynne has written an engaging study of the relationship of women to personal property in the Victorian era and how this relationship is depicted in the novels of the time... Wynne writes very well, and her monograph is both thought-provoking and enlightening... I have no hesitation in recommending this very readable and thought-provoking book.' Dickens Quarterly 'Wynne’s book is invigorating in the way it breaks with simplistic accounts of women’s nineteenth-century dispossession.' Victorian Studies '... [Wynne’s] journey through the novels has an infectious enthusiasm which also lays the ground for the application of thing theory to other novels of the period such as those of Gaskell, Collins and Trollope.' English Studies
