Afterlife of Property
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman''s love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens''s Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot''s Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property...
In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman''s love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens''s Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot''s Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property...
