Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel by Deborah Wynne

By Deborah Wynne

How key adjustments to the married women's estate legislation contributed to new methods of viewing ladies in society are published in Deborah Wynne's examine of literary representations of ladies and transportable estate throughout the interval 1850 to 1900. whereas serious explorations of Victorian women's connections to the fabric international have tended to target their relationships to commodity tradition, Wynne argues that smooth paradigms of consumerism can't be utilized around the board to the Victorian interval. until eventually the passing of the 1882 Married Women's estate Act, many ladies lacked complete estate rights; proof means that, for ladies, gadgets usually functioned now not as disposable purchaser items yet as loved own estate. Focusing really on representations of ladies and fabric tradition in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne indicates how novelists engaged with the vexed query of women's relationships to estate. Suggesting that the various it appears insignificant goods that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel tackle new that means whilst seen in the course of the lens of women's entry to fabric tradition and the vagaries of estate legislation, her learn opens up new probabilities for analyzing woman characters in Victorian fiction and divulges the advanced paintings of 'thing tradition' in literary texts.

Show description

Read or Download Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (Nineteenth Century Series (Ashgate)) PDF

Best literary victorian criticism books

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

The eighteenth-century version of the legal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the proof of a case might 'speak for themselves' - used to be deserted in 1836, while laws enabled barristers to handle the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with criminal. more and more, expert acts of interpretation have been obvious as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by way of eye witnesses at felony trials.

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive subject in all components of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This booklet explores how crime is developed and culturally represented via a variety of components together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, track, Criminology, Gender, legislations, Cultural and felony Justice reviews.

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford English Monographs)

This e-book considers the ways that girls writers used the robust positions of writer and editor to accomplish conventions of gender and style within the Victorian interval. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen wooden, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) along their sensation fiction to discover the collectively influential thoughts of authorship and editorship.

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers: Volume 3 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Poetry)

The point of interest of this name, first released in 1989, starts with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways that we learn them. There are 3 readings for every of the six poems into account which are either complementary and provocative. the chosen poems exhibit Dickinson talking of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the skin global, dying and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.

Extra info for Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (Nineteenth Century Series (Ashgate))

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.32 of 5 – based on 24 votes