Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790

By: Jordan, Nicolle

Land ownership--and engagement with land more generally--constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational sociopolitical function, land necessarily generated copious writing that vested it with considerable aesthetic and economic value. This book, then,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684485398
• ISBN13: 9781684485390
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher