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

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Main Author: Tadmor, Naomi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I The concept of the household-family
  • Introduction
  • The concept of the household-family
  • 'My family at home': Thomas Turner's diary
  • Categorical definitions and further usages
  • 2 The concept of the household-family in novels and conduct
  • treatises
  • Introduction
  • The concept of the household-family in two novels
  • The concept of the household-family in two conduct treatises
  • The family timetable
  • Conclusion
  • 3 The concept of the lineage-family
  • Introduction
  • Thomas Turner's concept of the lineage-family
  • The Pelham family
  • The concept of the lineage-family in two conduct treatises
  • The concept of the lineage-family in two novels
  • Conclusion
  • 4 The language of kinship
  • The kinship-family
  • The historiography and the language of kinship
  • Recognition and opacity
  • Incorporation and differentiation
  • Plurality
  • Diffusion
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Friends
  • Introduction
  • Who were Thomas Turner's friends?
  • Related friends
  • Friendship in marriage
  • Thomas Turner's select friends
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Political friends
  • 7 Ideas about friendship and the constructions of friendship in
  • literary texts
  • Introduction
  • The measures and offices of friendship
  • The friends of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
  • Who are Clarissa's friends?
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.