TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scheuermann,Mona
TI  - Her bread To earn: women, money, and society from Defoe to Austen 
SN  - 9780813159577
AV  - PR858.W6 S34 2015 
U1  - 823.509352042 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Money in literature
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: ""I was become, from a Lady of Pleasure, a Woman of Business, and of great Business too, I assure you.""; THREE: ""I have sometimes wished that it had pleased God to have taken me in mylast fever, when I had everybody's love and good opinion.""; FOUR: ""with Regard to the young Lady ... my own Observation assured me that she would be an inestimable Treasure to a good Husband.""; FIVE: ""I live in an age when light begins to appear even in regions that have hitherto been thick darkness.""; SIX: ""Still she mourned her child, lamented she was a daughter, and anticipated the aggravated ills of life that her sex rendered almost inevitable.""SEVEN: ""He had ... enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor.""; EIGHT Conclusion; Notes; Index
N2  - Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists are of functioning, capable women whose involvement with the getting, keeping, and investing of money provides a ubiquitous theme in the novels of the period. Her Bread to Earn focuses on the images presented by the major novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, those work
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