Zouheir Jamoussi

Individual, Family and Society in Jane Austen’s Work

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

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This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.

Primogeniture and Entail in England

A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

£39.99

This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.

The Snare in the Constitution

Defoe and Swift on Liberty

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

£49.99

This comparative study of Defoe and Swift explores their treatments of liberty. It examines the relationship between “snare” and “liberty” through the analogy of the political and human constitutions in their fictional and non-fictional works.

Theodore Powys’s Gods and Demons

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

£47.99

Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.

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