The idea of property in seventeenth-century England : tithes and the individual
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The idea of property in seventeenth-century England : tithes and the individual
（Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain）
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-180) and index
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This book is available as an Open Access ebook under a CC-BY_NC-ND licence.
This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson's work. Often described by others as 'the English Philip Roth' and by himself as 'the Jewish Jane Austen', Jacobson emerges here as a complex and often contradictory figure: a fearless novelist; a combative public intellectual; a polemical journalist; an unapologetic elitist and an irreverent outsider; an exuberant iconoclast and a sombre satirist. Never afraid of controversy, Jacobson tends to polarise readers; but love him or hate him, he is difficult to ignore. This book gives him the thorough consideration and the balanced evaluation that he deserves. -- .
Table of Contents
- Money, sects and tithes
- husbandmen and slothful vinedressers
- land and labour - the improvement of the Commonwealth
- owning tithes - tithing owners
- men-midwives and nursing fathers - the Commonwealth and the poor
- the web of property and conscience.
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