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Novel Relations - The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 (Hardcover, New)
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Novel Relations - The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 (Hardcover, New)
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In Novel Relations, Ruth Perry describes the transformation of the
English family as a function of several major social changes taking
place in the eighteenth century including 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. In particular Perry traces the shift
from a kinship orientation based on blood relations to a kinship
axis constituted by conjugal ties as it is revealed in popular
literature of the second half of the eighteenth century. Perry
focuses particularly on the effect these changes had on women's
position in families. She uses social history, literary analysis
and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Samuel
Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Henry MacKenzie, Frances Burney, Jane
Austen, and many others. This important study by a leading
eighteenth-century scholar will be of interest to social and
literary historians.
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