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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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
Subject:	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Law and literature -- History -- 18th century. Property in literature. Law in literature. English fiction. Law and literature. Law in literature. Property in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
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.

Table of Contents:

1. Conceiving the civil subject : property, power, and prose
2. Who shall inherit the earth? : Jonathan Swift and the Jure Paterno
3. Laying claim to title : Mary Davys and authorial dispossession
4. The incomplete tradesman : Daniel Defoe and the lay of the land
5. Heirs of the flesh : Eliza Heywood and the body of law.