Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Roxana's contractual affiliations
- 3 Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract
- 4 Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience
- 5 Roderick Random: suited by the law
- 6 Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds
- 7 The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield
- 8 Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Roxana's contractual affiliations
- 3 Clarissa Harlowe: caught in the contract
- 4 Tame spirits, brave fellows, and the web of law: Robert Lovelace's legalistic conscience
- 5 Roderick Random: suited by the law
- 6 Shadows of the prison house or shade of the family tree: Amelia's public and private worlds
- 7 The embattled middle: longing for authority in The Vicar of Wakefield
- 8 Caleb Williams: negating the romance of the public conscience
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century FictionThe Public Conscience in the Private Sphere, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993