The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law

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The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law

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Type: Paperback

ISBN: 9781349518104

Date: 1st January, 2004

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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  2. History and Criticism
  3. Literary Studies: General
  4. C 1600 To C 1800

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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.

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