Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, And Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Dust jacket, black boards and book's interior in fine condition. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011...
Dust jacket, black boards and book's interior in fine condition. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011
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Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.Product Info
ISBN: 0838756042
ISBN-13: 9780838756041
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Year: 2006-08-30
Type: New
Binding: Hardcover
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