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  1. Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    "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... more

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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.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0511042671; 9780511042676; 0511120877; 9780511120879; 9780521817028; 0521817021; 9780511484483; 0511484488; 9780511045905; 0511045905; 0511148305; 9780511148309
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 266 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index