ACLS Humanities E-Book: Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction: the public conscience in the private sphere

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction: the public conscience in the private sphere

Zomchick, John P.

Year: c1993.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Publisher's Website

For full access to this item, please Login

table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Roxana's contractual affiliations

3 Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract

4 Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience

5 Roderick Random: suited by the law

6 Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds

7 The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield

8 Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience

Bibliography

Index

reviews

catalog record

Title:

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction : the public conscience in the private sphere / John P. Zomchick.

Author:

Zomchick, John P

Extent:

600dpi TIFF G4 page images

E-Distribution Information:

University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.

Source Version:

Family and the law in eighteenth-century fiction : the public conscience in the private sphere / John P. Zomchick.
Zomchick, John P
Cambridge [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, c1993.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07581

Subject Headings:

• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Law and literature -- History -- 18th century
• Social problems in literature
• Individualism in literature
• Families in literature

Note:

• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

Encoding Description:

Project Description:
	Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2011-06-23
Editorial Declaration:
	This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.