The English Jacobin novel on rights, property and the law : critiquing the contract

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The English Jacobin novel on rights, property and the law : critiquing the contract

Title remainder

critiquing the contract

Statement of responsibility

Nancy E. Johnson

Creator

• Johnson, Nancy E., 1956-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Property in literature
• History
• Human rights in literature
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Jacobins -- Great Britain
• Social contract in literature
• Law and literature -- History -- 18th century
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Law in literature
• English fiction -- French influences

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• The novel's inquiries into political transformations at the end of the eighteenth century reveal that the exclusion of certain segments of the population from political participation - based on financial dependence - persisted into notions of the social contract
• "The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject
• English Jacobin fiction tells the tale of how the novel, in one critical moment of history, located and gave meaning to a theory of rights that became a foundation of modern democracy."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.6093554

Index

index present

LC call number

PR858.L39

LC item number

J64 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography