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Marriage, Property, and Women’s Narratives

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Author(s): Sally A. Livingston (auth.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012

Language: English
Tags: Literary History; History of Medieval Europe; Gender Studies; Medieval Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Silence and Women’s Authority....Pages 1-6
Property’s History, Property’s Literature....Pages 7-18
Silence, Language, Sexuality....Pages 19-34
Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France....Pages 35-62
Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree and The Book of Margery Kempe ....Pages 63-74
Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot....Pages 75-98
Virginia Woolf’s Women, Trapped and Freed....Pages 99-120
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot....Pages 121-157
Conclusion: Why Are Women Poor?....Pages 159-161
Back Matter....Pages 163-226