{"product_id":"eighteenth-century-fiction-and-the-law-wolfram-schmidgen-9780521817028","title":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property","description":"In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyze the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction. His study argues that such descriptions are important to the British imagination of community. By making visible what it means to own something, they illuminate how competing concepts of property define the boundaries of the individual, of social community, and of political systems. In this way, Schmidgen recovers description as a major feature of eighteenth-century prose, and he makes his case across a wide range of authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, William Blackstone, Adam Smith, and Ann Radcliffe. The book's most incisive theoretical contribution lies in its careful insistence on the unity of the human and the material: in Schmidgen's argument, persons and things are inescapably entangled. This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wolfram Schmidgen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521817021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521817028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Wolfram Schmidgen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065006862591,"sku":"9780521817028","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10af104d-4919-49dd-8a84-58991df4caab.jpg?v=1768672517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eighteenth-century-fiction-and-the-law-wolfram-schmidgen-9780521817028","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}