ABSTRACT
Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Property and political theory
chapter 2|23 pages
Resources, capacities, and ownership
The workmanship ideal and distributive justice
chapter I 4|31 pages
The “misteries” of property
Relationality, rural-industrialization, and community in Chartist narratives of political rights
part II|66 pages
Property and legal ideology
chapter II 6|33 pages
Land law, citizenship, and the invention of “Englishness”
The strange world of the equity of redemption
chapter II 7|15 pages
Property, commerce, and the common law
Attitudes to legal change in the eighteenth century
part III|60 pages
Property and the family
chapter III 9|24 pages
Women and property in ancien régime France
Theory and practice in Dauphiné and Paris
chapter III 10|25 pages
Resentment or resignation?
Dividing the spoils among daughters and younger sons
part IV|101 pages
Property and the construction of a self
chapter 11|13 pages
Property and politeness in the early eighteenth-century Whig moralists
The case of the Spectator
part V|90 pages
Literary property
chapter 17|26 pages
Epistolary Property
Michel de Servan and the plight of letters on the eve of the French Revolution
chapter 18|24 pages
The bank, the press, and the “return of Nature”
On currency, credit, and literary property in the 1690s
chapter 19|22 pages
Literary capital
Gray's “Elegy,” Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and the vernacular canon
part VI|84 pages
Reification: the invention and institution of special forms of property
chapter 22|14 pages
Delivering the goods
Patriotism, property, and the midwife mission of Mme du Coudray
part VII|90 pages
The property of empire
chapter 24|33 pages
Property and propriety
Land tenure and slave property in the creation of a British West Indian plantocracy, 1612–1740
chapter 26|27 pages
Coerced indigenous labor and free mestizo peasantry
A property-rights, rent-seeking view of colonial Paraguay
