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Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth)./
Author:	Maurer, Sara L.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4059.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3111901
ISBN:	0496594311

Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth).
Maurer, Sara L.

Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth). - 260 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4059.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003.

Drawing on novels, legal writing, and proto-anthropological studies, this dissertation outlines a cultural history of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland. The project explores the century's changing ideas about what it means to own, what qualifies as owning, and why those ideas mattered so centrally to Victorian national identity. Fundamental to the dissertation is the idea that even though national affiliation depends on a vocabulary of ownership, private ownership, understood as exclusive and alienable, is uncomfortably at odds with a spirit of national affiliation, imagined to be inclusive and inalienable. In her Irish novels, Maria Edgeworth overcomes this contradiction in plots that imagine the Anglo-Irish as without title to their Irish property, and thus perversely unable to give up their dominating ties to Irish land and its people. In their condition-of-England novels, Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell revise the Edgeworthian approach, focusing on the female landlord as the illegitimate owner, who in being both proprietor of her land and property of her future husband, blur proprietorship into a form of affectionate affiliation. Anthony Trollope's Palliser series also blurs ownership and marital affiliation, imagining property to require for its security the husband's legal possession of property alongside the wife's emotional enjoyment of it. This proprietary division of labor is fundamental to Trollope's vision of parliament as a marriage between the power-holding members of parliament, and the power-enjoying women who shape their careers. The dissertation concludes by examining the Irish Land Acts' codification of shared ownership between Anglo-Irish landlord and Irish tenant as another case of this proprietary division of labor, which its architects hoped would enmesh England and Ireland in two different types of ownership in the same property. By examining the fundamental messiness of property, which produces codependence, disavowal, and debasement far more than it ever produces social authority or stability, this dissertation complicates standard narratives of the British nineteenth century as dominated by a middle-class discourse relentlessly seeking to legitimize its claims to property and power both inside and beyond the nation.

ISBN: 0496594311Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgeworth).
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