Editorial: Oxford University Press
Número de páginas: 240 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 20-04-2023
EAN: 9780192867261
ISBN: 978-0-19-286726-1
Precio (sin IVA): 86,92 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 90,40 €
Understanding the reform of married women's property as both an ideologically and materially substantial redistribution of the nation's wealth as well as one complicated by competing cultural traditions, this book explores the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by fiction that engages with but also diverges from the law in accounts of economic choices and transactions. Repeatedly, narratives by Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, and Oliphant suggest both that the law is inadequate to account for the way that property enables and disrupts relationships, and that the form of the Victorian novel - in its ability to track intimate and intricate exchanges across generations - is better suited to such tasks.