Article: Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: the Public Conscience in the Private Sphere.

Zomchick's book, the latest volume in the series Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, offers interpretations of Defoe's Roxana, Richardson's Clarissa, Smollett's Roderick Random, Fielding's Amelia, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, and Godwin's Caleb Williams. Zomchick bases his study upon what he terms the "juridical subject," a figure owing "its coherence to a system of legal beliefs, principles, and practices, which attain frequent and clear visibility both in the society and the narratives of eighteenth-century England" (p. xi). The study is the culmination of Zomchick's work on juridical discourse in the eighteenth century, an ...

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