The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law - Critiquing the Contract (Hardcover)

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. MARKET 1: Eighteenth-century Studies; Romantic scholars and students MARKET 2: General readers interested in law and literature, and the development of the novel

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	N Johnson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	215
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-3573-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4039-3573-4
Barcode:	9781403935731

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