Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 Book

This book describes the transformation of the English family between 1748 and 818. Covering such topics as the invention of sexual disgust, incest, and the responsibility of men for their consanguineal kin, Perry explains the plots and formulas of eighteenth-century fiction as both cause and effect of reconfigured social realities.Read More

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    Ruth Perry's major study describes the transformation of the English family, as represented in fiction, in the context of major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century. These include the development of a market economy and waged labor, enclosure and the redistribution of land, urbanization, the 'rise' of the middle class, and the development of print culture.

  • 052168790X
  • 9780521687904
  • Ruth Perry
  • 1 May 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 476
  • 1
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