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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Glover |
ISBN: | 0838756042 9780838756041 |
OCLC Number: | 62133679 |
Description: | 231 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Conceiving the civil subject : property, power, and prose -- Who shall inherit the earth? : Jonathan Swift and the jure paterno -- Laying claim to title : Mary Davys and authorial dispossession -- The incomplete tradesman : Daniel Defoe and the lay of the land -- Heirs of the flesh : Eliza Haywood and the body of law. |
Series Title: | Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture. |
Responsibility: | Susan Paterson Glover. |
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Abstract:
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. This book 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.
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