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Article: The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2005
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Nancy E. Johnson, The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) vii + 215 $65.00./[pounds sterling]47.50.
On first examination, the main strengths of Nancy E. Johnson's The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract appear to be described in the title. Yet Johnson's book profoundly challenges established studies of political fiction at the end of the eighteenth century. Because the materials are as unfamiliar as they are rich, and because one of the pleasures of reading this book is the ease with which it maps legal debates onto the familiar world of ...