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Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, cartea 15

Autor John P. Zomchick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2007
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521044288
ISBN-10: 0521044286
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Descriere

This book draws upon social, political and legal history to show that law and family play a central role in shaping the fictional world of six eighteenth-century English novels.