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Family and the Law in Eighteenth Century Fiction The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere 1st edition by John Zomchick ISBN 0521044286 9780521044288

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ISBN 10: 0521044286
ISBN 13: 978-0521044288
Author: John P. Zomchick

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. 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.

Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere 1st Table of contents:

Introduction
Roxana’s Contractual Affiliations
Clarissa Harlowe: Caught in the Contract
Tame Spirits, Brave Fellows, and the Web of Law: Robert Lovelace’s Legalistic Conscience
Roderick Random: Suited by the Law
Shadows of the Prison House or Shade of the Family Tree: Amelia’s Public and Private Worlds
The Embattled Middle: Longing for Authority in The Vicar of Wakefield
Caleb Williams: Negating the Romance of the Public Conscience

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