{"product_id":"family-and-the-law-in-eighteenth-century-fiction-the-public-conscience-in-the-private-sphere-paperback-9780521044288","title":"Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction; The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521044288","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFamily and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Public Conscience in the Private Sphere\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book draws upon social, political and legal history to show that law and family play a central role in shaping the fictional world of six eighteenth-century English novels.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn P. Zomchick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521044288, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 October 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFamily 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Roxana's contractual affiliations\u003cbr\u003e 3. Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience\u003cbr\u003e 5. Roderick Random: suited by the law\u003cbr\u003e 6. Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds\u003cbr\u003e 7. The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield\u003cbr\u003e 8. Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006263087384,"sku":"9780521044288","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521044288i_43ae2452-28bc-47dd-8d03-3ec34142969d.jpg?v=1694968623","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/family-and-the-law-in-eighteenth-century-fiction-the-public-conscience-in-the-private-sphere-paperback-9780521044288","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}