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

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

Name: Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138923706
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Author: Anat Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781138923706

By Anat Rosenberg

Routledge August 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781138923706
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: August 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Contract reached its highpoint as a conceptual tool in the Victorian era, when historical frameworks, from feudalism to religion, lost their power to delineate social relations.

As Victorians negotiated the unsettled balances of their sense of constraints and possibilities in this era of change, and experimented with conceptual forms able to make sense of a rapidly evolving market society, representations of contract, and promise – the human relation at contract’s heart – assumed center-stage.

Reading representations of promissory relations in canonic realist fiction – one of the main sites of liberal social thought of the Victorian era – against histories of contract law and practice, this book revisits and reframes prevailing liberal views of contract.

Introduction

Part 1: A Suspect Consensus

1. Contract’s Liberalism, or How the History of Contract Has Formed the Authoritative Sense of the Past Supplement. How Law & Literature Has Failed to Challenge the Consensus

Part 2: Liberalism and Promises

2. Signifying Social Existence

3. The Individualism of Relations

4. Relational Individuals in a Single Arena Supplement. Promise Keeping?

Part 3: The Liberal Outlook: Liberal Ideals and Their Conceptual Others

5. Liberalism: Reinterpreting Statuses

6. Liberal Anguish: The Psychic Conclusion

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