Overview
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Contract's Liberalism in Contracts Histories -- Metanarratives -- Narrative Strand 1: Contract's Meaning, Or Classical Contract Law's Atomistic Individualism -- Individualism in Contract Histories -- Individualistic Bias in Contracts -- Narrative Strand 2: Stability in Contract's Meaning, Or the Otherness of Status and Collectivism -- Status and Contract -- Collectivism and Contract -- Narrative Strand 3: Hegemony of Contract's Meaning, Or Atomism as Culture -- Individualism Around Contract -- Collectivism Around Contract -- Part I From Status -- Foreword -- 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 -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
- | Author: Anat Rosenberg
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Jul 28, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138923702
- | ISBN-13: 9781138923706
