Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521032544
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies
First sentence: From the beginning of the novel, Clarissa's relation to property is represented figuratively, in the sense of those qualities she possesses as an individual, and literally, in the state she has inherited from her grandfather.