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Author: Jill Rappoport (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Kentucky)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.496kg
ISBN: 9780192867261
ISBN 10: 0192867261
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 20 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Admirably well researched, Imagining Women's Property is also elegantly written and thought-provoking. In revealing new facets of Victorian culture's shifting conceptions of women's ownership, marriage, economic agency, and familial obligation, it will undoubtedly prove a valuable resource to students and advanced scholars alike. * The Review of English Studies * In this erudite and thoroughly researched volume, Jill Rappoport examines how the changing laws affecting married women's property rights are reflected in the writings of Victorian novelists. She draws upon the works of notable female writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Margaret Oliphant, but also Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, both of whom feature married women prominently in their fiction. The author also extends her discussion to other authors, including those of the pre-Victorian era, citing, for example, Jane Austen, who, in her work, as in her life, was conscious of the injustices that women faced regarding property prior to the reform of the law. * Sue Day, Family and Community Historical Research Society Newsletter *
Admirably well researched, Imagining Women's Property is also elegantly written and thought-provoking. In revealing new facets of Victorian culture's shifting conceptions of women's ownership, marriage, economic agency, and familial obligation, it will undoubtedly prove a valuable resource to students and advanced scholars alike. * The Review of English Studies *
Author Information
Jill Rappoport is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where her research has focused on representations of gender, economic traditions, and community activism in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (2012) and co-editor of Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (2013). Her articles have appeared in a range of journals and volumes including Nineteenth-Century Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900; Victorian Studies, and Victorian Poetry.
