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Impotent Fathers
Brian McCrea
其他書名
Patriarchy and Demographic Crisis in the Eighteenth-century Novel
出版University of Delaware Press, 1998
ISBN08387535909780838753590
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2DRaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Understanding the novel as both the document and the agent of social change, Impotent Fathers studies how writers in eighteenth-century Britain at once recorded and helped to define a major demographic crisis suffered by the landed elite from 1650 to 1740. To questions about patriarchy, property, and gender in the early novel, it brings recent work on demographics by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population Studies (E.A. Wrigley, R.S. Schofield, Lloyd Bonfield, and others) and by Lawrence F. and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone. Impotent Fathers proposes that the early novel was an important means for readers and writers to work through anxieties about family, property, and succession created by failures in patrilinear succession.