04003nam 22008052 450 991081054910332120151005020621.01-107-13475-71-280-15975-80-511-12087-70-511-04267-10-511-14830-50-511-33027-80-511-48448-80-511-04590-5(CKB)1000000000002439(EBL)202292(OCoLC)475917477(SSID)ssj0000144736(PQKBManifestationID)11160457(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144736(PQKBWorkID)10167527(PQKB)10517818(SSID)ssj0000943187(PQKBManifestationID)12392838(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000943187(PQKBWorkID)10975257(PQKB)10735628(UkCbUP)CR9780511484483(MiAaPQ)EBC202292(Au-PeEL)EBL202292(CaPaEBR)ebr10030939(CaONFJC)MIL15975(EXLCZ)99100000000000243920090224d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEighteenth-century fiction and the law of property /Wolfram Schmidgen[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02459-5 0-521-81702-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-261) and index.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 and the 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.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.Eighteenth-Century Fiction & the Law of PropertyEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismLaw and literatureHistory18th centuryDwellings in literatureLandscapes in literatureProperty in literatureLaw in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Law and literatureHistoryDwellings in literature.Landscapes in literature.Property in literature.Law in literature.823.609355Schmidgen Wolfram1594999UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910810549103321Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property3995912UNINA