Jill Rappoport
Biographic Data
| ID | 5396117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Rappoport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Rappoport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPOPORT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Romance’s Rival
Talia Schaffer’s erudite, eloquent study of the nineteenth-century marriage plot asks “What’s love got to do with it?” and takes seriously the possibility that for much of Victorian fiction, passio
Greed, Generosity, and other Problems with Unmarried Women's Property
This essay examines how blood ties motivate the financial choices of several unmarried women in Anthony Trollope’s fiction. It both proposes a model for interpreting female economic agency that does not depend primarily upon sexual economies and suggests the significance of married women’s property reform for relationships outside of marriage. The punitive plotlines I examine in The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux , and Can You Forg…
Special Issue, INCS 2012
Conservation of Sympathy in Cranford
By the mid-nineteenth century , British women had ample motivation for imagining forms of charity that did not require money. Property laws continued to deprive most married women of personal wealth and new statistics revealed a “surplus” of unmarried middle-class women lacking employment. Elizabeth Gaskell addressed these financial challenges by envisioning alternative forms of economic power for women. Her novella Cranford (1851–53) depicts a c…
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Conservation of Sympathy in Cranford
By the mid-nineteenth century , British women had ample motivation for imagining forms of charity that did not require money. Property laws continued to deprive most married women of personal wealth and new statistics revealed a “surplus” of unmarried middle-class women lacking employment. Elizabeth Gaskell addressed these financial challenges by envisioning alternative forms of economic power for women. Her novella Cranford (1851–53) depicts a c…
Special Issue, INCS 2012
Greed, Generosity, and other Problems with Unmarried Women's Property
This essay examines how blood ties motivate the financial choices of several unmarried women in Anthony Trollope’s fiction. It both proposes a model for interpreting female economic agency that does not depend primarily upon sexual economies and suggests the significance of married women’s property reform for relationships outside of marriage. The punitive plotlines I examine in The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux , and Can You Forg…
Romance’s Rival
Talia Schaffer’s erudite, eloquent study of the nineteenth-century marriage plot asks “What’s love got to do with it?” and takes seriously the possibility that for much of Victorian fiction, passio
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