Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts /
Warren, Joyce W.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : fracturing gender -- Marriage and money : trust v. trust -- The dominance discourse : compulsory dependency -- Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern -- The woman plaintiff -- The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs -- The woman defendant -- Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins -- The economics of divorce -- Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman -- Epilogue : into the twenty-first century.
American fiction
Money in literature.
Women and literature
American fiction
Law and literature
Economics in literature.
Courts in literature.
Law in literature.