{"product_id":"family-fictions-9780804741880","title":"Family Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In our current generation of sometimes manufactured criticism, \u003ci\u003eFamily Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing book because Flint, though mindful of the demands of institutional analysis, has not lost touch with the simple pleasures that stories produce, which, I think, is pretty rare in academic writing. One of the many rewards of that engagement is an excellent series of observations that frequently pop up in his book to synthesize and clarify otherwise complex textual and narrative relationships . . . .\u003ci\u003eFamily Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e adds appreciably to our understanding of what the period family meant, as well as the role the novel played in the slippery history of the family.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flint's book is well written and complex; he is convincing in his argument that the development of the early novel is not separable from the novel's fascination with the family.\"—Eighteenth-Century Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. Toward an eighteenth-century anthropology  2. From family romance to domestic scandal: 'female arts' in The Fair Jilt  3. Robinson Crusoe and the orphaned family  4. The anxiety of affluence: Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded  5. The erotic and the domestic in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless  6. Disavowing kinship, 1760-1798  Afterword  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405545906519,"sku":"9780804741880","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804741880.jpg?v=1730492787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/family-fictions-9780804741880","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}