The Old Manor House (Broadview Literary Texts)
Contributors: Jacqueline M. Labbe (Editor)
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: September 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9781551112138
Subjects: Romance; Romance - Gothic; General; Fiction - General; Women landowners; Fiction; Social classes; Literary; Fiction / Romance / Gothic; Inheritance and succession; Women domestics
Description: "In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable members, the dispossessed.".

"Appendices in this edition include: contemporary responses; writings on the genre debate by Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Moore, and Walter Scott; and historical documents focusing on property laws as well as the American and French revolutions."--BOOK JACKET.