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In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyse the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction. His study argues that such descriptions are important to the British imagination of community. By making visible what it means to own something, they illuminate how competing concepts of property define the boundaries of the individual, of social community, and of political systems. In this way, Schmidgen recovers description as a major feature of eighteenth-century prose, and he makes his case across a wide range of authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, William Blackstone, Adam Smith, and Ann Radcliffe. The book's most incisive theoretical contribution lies in its careful insistence on the unity of the human and the material: in Schmidgen's argument, persons and things are inescapably entangled. This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics.

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Wolfram Schmidgen is Lecturer at the University of Leeds. His work has been published in ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of British Studies and Studies in the Novel.
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March 9th, 2006
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  • Professional & Vocational
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Pages
276
Dimensions
153x229x17
ISBN-13
9780521024594
Product ID
2058522

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