عنوان

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction :

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0511553579

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0521044286

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052141511X

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9780511553578

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9780521044288

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9780521415118

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b798225

Title Proper

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the public conscience in the private sphere /

First Statement of Responsibility

John P. Zomchick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1993

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 210 Seiten)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;

Volume Designation

15

Text of Note

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Text of Note

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.

Title

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction.

Parallel Title

Family et the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Families in literature.

Individualism in literature.

Law and literature-- History-- 18th century.

Privacy in literature.

Public opinion in literature.

Social problems in literature.

English fiction.

Families in literature.

Individualism in literature.

Law and literature.

Privacy in literature.

Public opinion in literature.

Social problems in literature.

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Edition

Class number

Zomchick, John P.

Date of Transaction

20201207105124.0

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