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Author:

Glover, Susan, 1950-

Title:

Engendering legitimacy : law, property, and early eighteenth-century fiction / Susan Paterson Glover.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

231 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Law and literature--History--18th century.
Property in literature
Law in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-226) and index.

Contents:

Conceiving the civil subject : property, power, and prose -- Who shall inherit the earth? : Jonathan Swift and the jure paterno -- Laying claim to title : Mary Davys and authorial dispossession -- The incomplete tradesman : Daniel Defoe and the lay of the land -- Heirs of the flesh : Eliza Haywood and the body of law.

Series:

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

ISBN:

9780838756041
9780838756041 (alk. paper)
0838756042 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62133679

LCCN:

2005029456

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)