This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London arg

In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside propert

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relati

This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Thro

A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.