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Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property, Wolfram Schmidgen
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- Summary
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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
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 266 pages
- Contents
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- Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel
- Terra nullius, cannibalism, and the natural law of appropriation in Robinson Crusoe
- Henry Fielding and the common law of plenitude
- Commodity fetishism in heterogeneous spaces
- Ann Radcliffe and the political economy of Gothic space
- Scottish law and Waverley's museum of property
- Isbn
- 9780521817028
- Label
- Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property
- Title
- Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property
- Statement of responsibility
- Wolfram Schmidgen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "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
- Cataloging source
- UKM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schmidgen, Wolfram
- Dewey number
- 823.609355
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR858.L39
- LC item number
- S36 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Law and literature
- Dwellings in literature
- Landscapes in literature
- Property in literature
- Law in literature
- Label
- Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property, Wolfram Schmidgen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel
- Terra nullius, cannibalism, and the natural law of appropriation in Robinson Crusoe
- Henry Fielding and the common law of plenitude
- Commodity fetishism in heterogeneous spaces
- Ann Radcliffe and the political economy of Gothic space
- Scottish law and Waverley's museum of property
- Control code
- 50302411
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521817028
- Lccn
- 2002727281
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property, Wolfram Schmidgen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel
- Terra nullius, cannibalism, and the natural law of appropriation in Robinson Crusoe
- Henry Fielding and the common law of plenitude
- Commodity fetishism in heterogeneous spaces
- Ann Radcliffe and the political economy of Gothic space
- Scottish law and Waverley's museum of property
- Control code
- 50302411
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521817028
- Lccn
- 2002727281
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
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