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Author Tadmor, Naomi

Title Family and friends in eighteenth-century England : household, kinship, and patronage / Naomi Tadmor
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The concept of the household-family; 2 The concept of the household-family in novels and conduct treatises; 3 The concept of the lineage-family; 4 The language of kinship; 5 Friends; 6 Political friends; 7 Ideas about friendship and the constructions of friendship in literary texts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Naomi Tadmor presents a new description of how family structures operated in eighteenth-century England starting from an analysis of contemporary language (in diaries; conduct treatises; novels by Richardson and Haywood; and other sources). Her book will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars of the period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-302) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.- gnd
Subject Patronage, Political -- England -- History -- 18th century
Households -- England -- History -- 18th century
Friendship -- England -- History -- 18th century
Kinship -- England -- History -- 18th century
Families -- England -- 18th century
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
Families
Friendship
Households
Kinship
Manners and customs
Patronage, Political
Literatur
Freundschaft
Patronage
Gezin.
Verwantschap.
Families.
Geschichte 1700-1800.
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043323
Subject England
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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