Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

[John P. Zomchick] ✓ Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction offers challenging interpretations of the public and private faces of individualism in the eighteenth-century English novel. He goes on to examine in detail their part in the fortunes and misfortunes of the protagonists in Defoes Roxana, Richardsons Clarissa, Smolletts Roderick Random, Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield and Godwins Caleb Williams. John P. Their ambivalence towards that formulation indicates a nostalgia for less competitive soc

Author	:	John P. Zomchick
Rating	:	4.54 (928 Votes)
Asin	:	052141511X
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	228 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-01-15
Language	:	English

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Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction offers challenging interpretations of the public and private faces of individualism in the eighteenth-century English novel. 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. John P. 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.. 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. Zomchick begins by surveying the social, historical and ideological functions of law and the family in England's developing market economy

well-intentioned but confusing R. A. Parker Despite the title of his book, Zomchick has not done any research on 18th century law in the sense of reading statutes or legal decisions; rather, he defines "law" broadly in terms of social regulation; but that concept is empty if it remains ungrounded in any contemporaneous legal texts. Thus while I appreciate the intention to historicize the novels he . A Customer said excellent for academics and lay audiences alike. In this prescient book, Zomchick has captured a society not only bound by law, but increasingly fascinated with it. Explore the roots of a culture which has given us such modern-day dramas as the O.J. Simpson Trial, Susan Smith Trial, Whitewater, the Unabomber, and the Microsoft Anti-Trust Case. Well done!

'Through fresh and insightful readings of canonical texts, Dolin presents a sharp understanding of the limits of the law and of fiction's transcendent ability to say the unsayable.' The Australian - Higher Education