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Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property // Wolfram Schmidgen.
remainder title:	Eighteenth-Century Fiction & the Law of Property
Author:	Schmidgen, Wolfram,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 18th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484483
ISBN:	9780511484483 (ebook)

Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /
Schmidgen, Wolfram,

Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /Eighteenth-Century Fiction & the Law of PropertyWolfram Schmidgen. - 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel --

In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyse the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction. 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 community, and of political systems. 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 most incisive theoretical contribution lies in its careful insistence on the unity of the human and the material: in Schmidgen's argument, persons and things are inescapably entangled. This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics.

ISBN: 9780511484483 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570104
English fiction
--History and criticism.--18th century

LC Class. No.: PR858.L39 / S36 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 823.609355

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