The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law

Critiquing the Contract

• Author(s): N. Johnson,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 215
• ISBN_10: 0230503381
  ISBN_13: 9780230503380
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , Fiction / General , Law / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Literary Criticism / Renaissance ,

Description:... The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject.