Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere

by 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521044286
• ISBN13: 9780521044288
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"