Regulating the Unstable Family: Eliza Haywood's Fiction and the Development of Family Law.

This essay examines Eliza Haywood's interrogation of the legal structuring of the family, arguing that her fiction articulates the need to serve the "best interests" of the child well before early modern British law enacted that goal. Haywood's amatory fiction, including Love in Excess; or, The Fata...

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Publicado en:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 49 - 79
Autor principal:	NIXON, CHERYL
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall2014
Materias:	Domestic relations in literature Haywood, Eliza Fowler, ca. 1693-1756 English fiction Domestic relations Parent-child relationships in literature Parent-child legal relationship United Kingdom
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