Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2007-10-01
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
John P., Zomchick
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Volymtitel
Series Number 15 Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 13 mm
Vikt
345 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521044288

Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere

av John P Zomchick
Häftad,  Engelska, 2007-10-01
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Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction offers challenging interpretations of the public and private faces of individualism in the eighteenth-century English novel. John P. Zomchick begins by surveying the social, historical and ideological functions of law and the family in England's developing market economy. He goes on to examine in detail their part in the fortunes and misfortunes of the protagonists in Defoe's Roxana, Richardson's Clarissa, Smollett's Roderick Random, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield and Godwin's Caleb Williams. Zomchick reveals in these novels an attempt to produce a 'juridical subject': a representation of the individual identified with the principles and aims of the law, and motivated by an inherent need for affection and community fulfilled by the family. Their ambivalence towards that formulation indicates a nostalgia for less competitive social relations, and an emergent liberal critique of the law's operation in the service of society's elites.
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Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Roxana's contractual affiliations; 3. Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract; 4. Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience; 5. Roderick Random: suited by the law; 6. Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds; 7. The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield; 8. Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience; Bibliography; Index.

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