Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England : Household, Kinship and Patronage
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'The reader of this stimulating and original book finds herself nodding in recognition as various pieces of eighteenth-century society fall into place: it is hard to imagine why no one had written such a work before ...Naomi Tadmor makes the first significant advance in the history of the English family in more than twenty years ... this is a breathtaking performance, both methodologically and interpretatively... Tadmor's scope and interpretative rigor will provide an important framework for all future explorations ...'. American Historical Review
'... Its main contribution lies in its emphasis on the complexity of the social and familial relationships which lay behind the apparently simple social and household structure of eighteenth-century England. Though this complexity is increasingly recognised in quantitative historiography, its true extent is revealed even more clearly by the qualitative documents analysed here.' Local Population Studies
'Naomi Tadmor's Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England makes a useful contribution to our understanding not only of family history, but of the eighteenth-century novel, neighborhood, and politics.' H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Book Description
This book concerns the history of the family in eighteenth-century England. Tadmor provides a new interpretation of concepts of household, family and kinship through her analysis of contemporary language (in diaries, conduct treatises, novels by Richardson and Haywood, and other sources). She emphasizes the importance of the household in constructing notions of the family, and shows how ties of "friendship" formed vital social, economic and political networks. Her book makes a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century history, and will be of value to all historians and literary scholars of the period.
Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England : Household, Kinship and Patronage
Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage,Naomi Tadmor,Cambridge University Press,0521771471,18th century,England,Europe - Great Britain - General,Friendship,General,Great Britain - History - 18th Century,History,History - General History,History: World,Households,Patronage, Political,Political Sociology,Social life and customs,Sociology - General,Sociology - Marriage & Family,Western Europe - General,British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,England--Social life and customs--18th century,Family & relationships,History / Europe / Western,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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