“To her went authority over the household, leisure time, courtship procedures, and kinship relations, and under jurisdiction the most basic qualities of human identity were supposed to develop” (467).
(Armstrong, Nancy. “From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)
(Armstrong, Nancy. “From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)