Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel.
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The author examines the works of Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and others to show how conservatives in the 18th century used the rhetoric of victimhood to convince ordinary readers to regard a privileged person's loss of legal agency as a catastrophe greater than the calamities and legally sanctioned exclusions suffered by the poor and enslaved. Johns Hopkins Unviversity Press. 2020. Paper. NEW. $35.00
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