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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wolfram Schmidgen |
| ISBN: | 0521817021 9780521817028 |
| OCLC Number: | 50302411 |
| Description: | viii, 266 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel -- Terra nullius, cannibalism, and the natural law of appropriation in Robinson Crusoe -- Henry Fielding and the common law of plenitude -- Commodity fetishism in heterogeneous spaces -- Ann Radcliffe and the political economy of Gothic space -- Scottish law and Waverley's museum of property. |
| Responsibility: | Wolfram Schmidgen. |
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Abstract:
Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyse the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction.
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'... a provocative study which addresses some of today's most urgent theoretical and historical debates by way of insightful literary analyses.' BARS Bulletin & Review
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- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Law and literature -- History -- 18th century.
- Dwellings in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Law in literature.
- Romans.
- Engels.
- Eigendomsrecht.
- Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs.
- Habitations dans la littérature.
- Paysage dans la littérature.
- Propriété dans la littérature.
- Literatur.
- Besitz (Motiv)
- Landschaft (Motiv)
- Englisch.
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