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

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Preface Acknowledgements 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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