Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-century FictionBucknell University Press, 2006 - 231 sider 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. |
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... tion to her three volume edition of Legal Treatises : Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women from Ashgate Publishing . I acknowledge with gratitude the financial support that permitted completion of this study from the ...
... tion to her three volume edition of Legal Treatises : Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women from Ashgate Publishing . I acknowledge with gratitude the financial support that permitted completion of this study from the ...
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... tion from which emerged a new literary genre , the English novel . The beginnings of the signal shift of the primacy of property in immovable land to more fluid forms of property — money , stocks , and paper credit - was coincident with ...
... tion from which emerged a new literary genre , the English novel . The beginnings of the signal shift of the primacy of property in immovable land to more fluid forms of property — money , stocks , and paper credit - was coincident with ...
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... tion of this right . Pleased as we are with the possession , we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired . . . . not caring to reflect that ( accurately and strictly speaking ) there is no foundation in nature or ...
... tion of this right . Pleased as we are with the possession , we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired . . . . not caring to reflect that ( accurately and strictly speaking ) there is no foundation in nature or ...
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... tion of the " immortal seven , " ostensibly to protect the Protestant throne and his wife Mary's claim to succession , James's support soon col- lapsed ; he was escorted to the coast and allowed 1 : CONCEIVING THE CIVIL SUBJECT 23.
... tion of the " immortal seven , " ostensibly to protect the Protestant throne and his wife Mary's claim to succession , James's support soon col- lapsed ; he was escorted to the coast and allowed 1 : CONCEIVING THE CIVIL SUBJECT 23.
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Who Shall Inherit the Earth? Jonathan Swift and the Jure Paterno | 43 |
Laying Claim to Title Mary Davys and Authorial Dispossession | 74 |
The Incomplete Tradesman Daniel Defoe and the Lay of the Land | 101 |
Heirs of the Flesh Eliza Haywood and the Body of Law | 133 |
Conclusion | 157 |
Notes | 162 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 227 |
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Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction Susan Paterson Glover Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2006 |
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Side 19 - ... that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
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