Eighteenth-century fiction and the law of property / Wolfram Schmidgen.

Author/creator Schmidgen, Wolfram
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionviii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Communal form and the transitional culture of the eighteenth-century novel -- Terra nullius, cannibalism, and the natural law of appropriation in Robinson Crusoe -- Henry Fielding and the common law of plenitude -- Commodity fetishism in heterogeneous spaces -- Ann Radcliffe and the political economy of Gothic space -- Scottish law and Waverley's museum of property.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0521817021