Crises of realism
Demographic transition
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Families in literature
Realism in literature
English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Roman anglais
Littérature anglaise
Literature and society
Roman
English fiction
Histoire et critique
History and criticism
History
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, an…
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