Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property

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Label

Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property

Statement of responsibility

Wolfram Schmidgen

Creator

• Schmidgen, Wolfram

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Property in literature
• History
• Dwellings in literature
• Law and literature -- History -- 18th century
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Law in literature
• Landscapes in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

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

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