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Hebbel, Friedrich --- Property in literature. --- Hebbel, Friedrich, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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English literature --- Personal belongings in literature --- Property in literature --- History and criticism

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"Imagining Women's Property reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in fiction. Although the (ironically insolvent) legal advisors of Dickens's novel might have been unable to conceive of or "produce [...] law for tying" the kind of "knot" required by women's financial claims in 1855, the reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 nonetheless constituted one of the largest economic transformations England had ever seen, as well as one of its most significant challenges to family traditions. At the start of this period, marriage meant the complete loss of a woman's common-law property rights to her husband; by its end, wives could independently claim their own income and inheritance, choose how to spend, invest, or give away their money, and write wills bequeathing their property. Unsurprisingly, marriage and marital law have been useful lenses for viewing these changing financial rights: wives once "covered" by their husbands through the doctrine of coverture reclaimed their own assets, regained economic agency, and forever altered the legal and theoretical nature of wedlock by doing so. Yet in many literary accounts, married women's property reform was neither as decisive nor as limited as this model suggests. Not only did legal mechanisms coexist and frequently "collide" with familial claims, but the reallocation of wealth affected far more than spouses or the marital state. Indeed, even fictional contemplation of women's greater economic agency, in the years leading up to these legal changes, produced narratives that show the ramifications of women's property rights for other kin ("say a brother, say a father") and communities. Understanding the reform of married women's property as both an ideologically and materially significant redistribution of the nation's wealth as well as one complicated by competing cultural traditions, I explore the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by prominent literary authors and their readers during this transformative period"--

English fiction --- Women's rights in literature --- Right of property in literature

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"Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and thus is the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism. It argues that matter has a politics, and that its new plasticity offers a continued possibility of critique.Stuff Theory's five chapters illustrate the intermittent flashes of modern 'minor' materiality in twentieth-century modernity as fashion, memory object, clutter, home de;cor, and waste in a wide range of texts: Benjamin's essays, Virginia Woolf's and Elfriede Jelinek's fiction, Rem Koolhaas' criticism, 1920s German photography and the cinema of Tati, Bertolucci, and Mendes. To call the commodified, ebullient materiality the book tracks stuff, is to foreground its plastic and transformative power, its fluidity and its capacity to generate events. Stuff Theory interrogates the political value of stuff's instability. It investigates the potential of stuff to revitalize the oppositional power of the object.Stuff Theory traces a genealogy of materiality: flashpoints of one kind of minor matter in a succession of cultural moments. It asserts that in culture, stuff becomes a rallying point for a new critique of capital, which always works to reassign stuff to a subaltern position. Stuff is not merely unruly: it becomes the terrain on which a new relation between people and matter might be built"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Material culture in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Personal belongings in art. --- Personal belongings in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- PHILOSOPHY --- Semiotics & Theory. --- Metaphysics. --- Material culture in literature --- Personal belongings in art --- Personal belongings in literature --- Property in literature --- Philosophy

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Literature and society --- Marriage in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Love in literature. --- History --- Dickens, Charles, --- Political and social views.