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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
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511042671 9780511042676 0511120877 9780511120879 9780521817028 0521817021 9780511484483 0511484488 9780511045905 0511045905 0511148305 9780511148309 1107134757 9781107134751 1280159758 9781280159756 0511330278 9780511330278 9780521024594 0521024595 |