This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight
important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in
narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender
signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the
formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only
be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of
property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be
considered separately from property relations and their reform. He
presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns,
acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between
patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative
form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which
property relations and gender relations are subject to radical
review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but
refers substantially to other material, both other novels and
contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.
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