Family and friends in eighteenth-century England household, kinship, and patronage

Summary: Naomi Tadmor presents a new description of how family structures operated in eighteenth-century England starting from an analysis of contemporary language (in diaries; conduct treatises; novels by Richardson and Haywood; and other sources). Her book will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars of the period.

Record details

ISBN: 0511019300 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511019302 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511049536
ISBN: 9780511049538
ISBN: 051111835X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511118357 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780521771474 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521771471 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780511496097 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511496095 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (x, 312 p.)
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The concept of the household-family; 2 The concept of the household-family in novels and conduct treatises; 3 The concept of the lineage-family; 4 The language of kinship; 5 Friends; 6 Political friends; 7 Ideas about friendship and the constructions of friendship in literary texts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.