Novel Relations

Novel Relations
Author: Ruth Perry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2004-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139454439

Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.