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THE ENGLISH JACOBIN NOVEL ON RIGHTS, PROPERTY AND THE LAW
CRITIQUING THE CONTRACT |
| By: |
Nancy E. Johnson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£81.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1403935734 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781403935731 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 2004 |
| Pages: |
223 |
| Description: |
This study focuses on the critique of the social contract in radical novels of the 1790s. Johnson examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject. |
| Synopsis: |
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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