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SUMMARY:Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century promises through litera
 ture\, law and history  - Anat Rosenberg (Wolfson College\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberalism\, as develope
 d through\, and as it developed\, the concept of contract\, by placing can
 onical realist novels in conversation with contracts histories. Current un
 derstandings\, it is argued\, need reconstructing from both ends of Henry 
 Maine's famed “status to contract." On the side of contract\, histories 
 have been oscillating between atomism and social-collective approaches\, m
 issing out on forms of relationality in Victorian liberal conceptualizatio
 ns of contracts. On the side of status\, the expectation of a move "from s
 tatus" has led to a split along the liberal/radical fault line\, which ove
 rlooks the possibility that liberalism functioned as a historical reinterp
 retation of status hierarchies – particularly gender and class – rathe
 r than either an effort of their elimination\, or preservation. 
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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