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Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History book cover

1st Edition

Liberalizing Contracts Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History

By Anat Rosenberg Copyright 2018
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically that of promise, most broadly the capitalist market order. She does so by placing canonical... Read more

Introduction;　 　1. Contract’s Liberalism in Contracts Histories;　 　Part I: From Status　　　Foreword to Part I;　 　2.Credit and the Market:　Vanity Fair　and　The Way We Live Now;　 　3.　Contract and Abstraction(?): Agency in　Ruth　and　Bleak House;　 　4.　Contract and Freedom(?): Constrained Existence in　Middlemarch　and　The Mayor of Casterbridge;　 　Part II: With Status　 　Foreword to Part II;　 　5. Status-to-Contract Reassessed: The Victorian Promise of Marriage;　 　6. Liberal Anguish:　Wuthering Heights　and the Structures of Liberal Thought;　 　Epilogue: History is Always in the Future

Biography

Dr. Anat Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the Radzyner Law School, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. She had been a visiting research fellow at Columbia Law School, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of London. Her research brings together law, literature, sociology and cultural studies, to study the history of late modern capitalism.

　

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