Novel Relations
Subtitle: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 17481818
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521687904
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The disinheritance in the title of this chapter refers to the psychological not to say legal disinheritance of daughters that I believe occurred in the eighteenth century as a result of the kinship shift I have been describing.