Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /
"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.
| Основен автор: | Schmidgen, Wolfram. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112686 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property. |
| Резюме: |
"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. 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. 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. This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics."--Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0511042671 9780511042676 0511120877 9780511120879 9780521817028 0521817021 9780511484483 0511484488 9780511045905 0511045905 0511148305 9780511148309 |