Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Wolfram Schmidgen.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 266 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyze the descriptions of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction.
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His study argues that such descriptions are important to the British imagination of community. By making visible what it means to own something, they illuminate how competing concepts of property define the boundaries of the individual, of social.
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In this way Schmidgen recovers description as a major feature of eighteenth-century prose, and he makes his case across a wide range of authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, William Blackstone, Adam Smith, and Ann Radcliffe. The book's.
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This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics."--Jacket.
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Title
Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property.
International Standard Book Number
0521817021
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dwellings in literature.
English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.