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Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and
fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as
people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts
and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly
non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture.
Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and
humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory,
statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and
encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the
institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve
as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and
humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how
the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth
century.
Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and
fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as
people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts
and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly
non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture.
Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and
humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory,
statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and
encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the
institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve
as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and
humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how
the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth
century.
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Tom Jones (Paperback)
Henry Fielding; Edited by John Bender, Simon Stern
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R346
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Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A
motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed,
his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of
prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites,
scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the
centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands
a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny
today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild
temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones
loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across
Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the
possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's
greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English
novels. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's
emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes,
maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest
scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the
novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise
on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive
account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For
the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law
and Blackstone's thought through the eight editions of Blackstone's
lifetime, and the authorial corrections of the posthumous ninth
edition. Introductions by the general editor and the volume editors
set the Commentaries in their historical context, examining
Blackstone's distinctive view of the common law, and editorial
notes throughout the four volumes assist the modern reader in
understanding this key text in the Anglo-American common law
tradition. Property law is the subject of Book II, the second and
longest volume of Blackstone's Commentaries. His lucid exposition
covers feudalism and its history, real estate and the forms of
tenure that a land-owner may have, and personal property, including
the new kinds of intangible property that were developing in
Blackstone's era, such as negotiable instruments and intellectual
property.
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