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The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law: Critiquing the Contract - Softcover

Johnson, N.

 
9781349518104: The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law: Critiquing the Contract
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349518107 ISBN 13: 9781349518104
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

NANCY E. JOHNSON is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where she teaches eighteenth-century English literature. In addition to working on the English Jacobin Novel and Law and Literature, she is editing a volume of Frances Burney's journals and letters (1790-91).

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349518107
ISBN 13 
9781349518104
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
223