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

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xviii, 210 pages ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 15 Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 15 Contents 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 Analysis English fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Families in literature. Individualism in literature. Law and literature -- History -- 18th century. Public opinion in literature. Social problems in literature. Author American Council of Learned Societies. LC no. 92015796 ISBN 052141511X (hardback)

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