| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: inheritance and disinheritance in the novel / Allan Hepburn -- Owenson's 'Sacred union': domesticating Ireland, disavowing Catholicism in The wild Irish girl / Patrick R. O'Malley -- The nation's wife: England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels / Sara L. Mauer -- Ghostly dispossessions: the Gothic properties of Uncle Silas / Ann Gaylin -- The Englishness of a gentleman: illegitimacy and race in Daniel Deronda / Natalie Rose -- A battle of wills: solving The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Carol Margaret Davison -- E.M. Forster's The longest journey and the legacy of sentiment / Jay Dickson -- Heredity and disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Bradley D. Clissold -- Elizabeth Bowen and the maternal sublime / Maria DiBattista -- Good graces: inheritance and social climging in Brideshead revisited / Allan Hepburn -- Maternal property and female voice in Banville's fiction / Jason S. Polley |
| Summary |
Troubled Legacies thoroughly examines the connection between narrative and claims to legal entitlement, a topic that has not, to date, been comprehensively broached in literary studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Legal stories, English -- History and criticism
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Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Inheritance and succession in literature.
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Wills in literature.
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Property in literature.
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Law in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction.
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Inheritance and succession in literature.
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Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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Legal stories, English.
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Property in literature.
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Wills in literature.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hepburn, Allan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442685079 |
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1442685077 |
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