Engendering legitimacy
Subtitle: law, property, and early eighteenth-century fiction
By: Susan Paterson Glover.
Series: The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838756041
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Law and literature -- History -- 18th century.; Property in literature.; Law in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Conceiving the civil subject : property, power, and prose; value: Who shall inherit the earth? : Jonathan Swift and the jure paterno; value: Laying claim to title : Mary Davys and authorial dispossession; value: The incomplete tradesman : Daniel Defoe and the lay of the land; value: Heirs of the flesh : Eliza Haywood and the body of law.