Marriage, Property, and Women’s Narratives

1. Introduction: Silence and Women’s Authority
Sally A. Livingston

2. Property’s History, Property’s Literature
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3. Silence, Language, Sexuality
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4. Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France
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5. Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree and The Book of Margery Kempe

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6. Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot
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7. Virginia Woolf’s Women, Trapped and Freed
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8. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Women Writers Reject the Marriage Plot
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9. Conclusion: Why Are Women Poor?
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Keywords: Literature, Literary History, History of Medieval Europe, Gender Studies, Medieval Literature