Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives [electronic resource] /
Livingston, S.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Silence and Women's Authority; 1. Property's History, Property's Literature; 3. Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France; 4. Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree and The Book of Margery Kempe; 5. Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot; 6. Virginia Woolf 's Women, Trapped and Freed; 7. Mid-nineteenth-century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot; Conclusion: Why are Women Poor?; Notes
2. Silence, Language, SexualityBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Literature-History and criticism.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Sociology.
Literature, Medieval.
Literary History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Gender Studies.
Medieval Literature.