LEADER 03385nam 22006492 450 001 996248128203316 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a0-511-88033-2 010 $a0-511-55357-9 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000242 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333250 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232216 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333250 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10335997 035 $a(PQKB)10506431 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511553578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4638844 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000242 100 $a20090513d1993|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFamily and the law in eighteenth-century fiction $ethe public conscience in the private sphere /$fJohn P. Zomchick$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v15 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-04428-6 311 $a0-521-41511-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-206) and index. 330 $aFamily and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction offers challenging interpretations of the public and private faces of individualism in the eighteenth-century English novel. John P. Zomchick begins by surveying the social, historical and ideological functions of law and the family in England's developing market economy. He goes on to examine in detail their part in the fortunes and misfortunes of the protagonists in Defoe's Roxana, Richardson's Clarissa, Smollett's Roderick Random, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield and Godwin's Caleb Williams. Zomchick reveals in these novels an attempt to produce a 'juridical subject': a representation of the individual identified with the principles and aims of the law, and motivated by an inherent need for affection and community fulfilled by the family. Their ambivalence towards that formulation indicates a nostalgia for less competitive social relations, and an emergent liberal critique of the law's operation in the service of society's elites. 410 0$aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v15. 517 3 $aFamily & the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aPublic opinion in literature 606 $aIndividualism in literature 606 $aPrivacy in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 615 0$aPublic opinion in literature. 615 0$aIndividualism in literature. 615 0$aPrivacy in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 676 $a823/.509 700 $aZomchick$b John P.$0553073 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248128203316 996 $aFamily and the law in eighteenth-century fiction$9975010 997 $aUNISA