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'Johnson's argument goes straight to the heart of novel studies: fiction privileged property as the basis of enfranchisement and so limited the democratizing process it envisioned. The genius of her book is to come at this paradox through the curious body of fiction written during the period following revolutions in North America and France for the expressed purpose of exposing the limits of the Lockean model of government. This strikingly fresh look at the Jacobin novel shows it embracing fiction as culture's most powerful political medium and challenging the premises of modern nation building. In focusing on these particular novels, she therefore deals with the very topics that preoccupy scholars who read and write about fiction in any epoch, namely, the gendered identity of citizenship, the restriction of political agency, and the difficulty of imagining a future of collective transformation.' - Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Brown University, USA
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Book Title: The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law
Book Subtitle: Critiquing the Contract
Authors: Nancy E. Johnson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503380
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3573-1Published: 30 April 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51810-4Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50338-0Published: 30 April 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 215
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Law, general