Engendering legitimacy : law, property, and early eighteenth-century fiction /

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Author / Creator:Glover, Susan, 1950-
Imprint:Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2006.
Description:231 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6105419
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ISBN:0838756042 (alk. paper)
9780838756041
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-226) and index.
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Summary:Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.
Physical Description:231 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-226) and index.
ISBN:0838756042
9780838756041