Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction

by Susan Paterson Glover

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838756042
• ISBN13: 9780838756041
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 231 Pages