Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property

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Hardcover | 25 November 2002

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In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyze 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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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Literary Studies of Fiction

Acknowledgments
Introduction
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's 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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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