Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction - The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere

Klappentext This book draws upon social! political and legal history to show that law and family play a central role in shaping the fictional world of six eighteenth-century English novels. Zusammenfassung This book draws upon social! political and legal history to show that law and family play a central role in shaping the fictional world of six eighteenth-century English novels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Roxana's contractual affiliations; 3. Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract; 4. Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience; 5. Roderick Random: suited by the law; 6. Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds; 7. The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield; 8. Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John P. Zomchick
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521044288
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04428-8
• Seiten: 232
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft