TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; GENERAL CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary
This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates. This double approach roughly covers the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Although this inheritance custom usually made the elder son sole heir to the whole paternal estate, to the exclusion and sometimes the utter impoverishment of the other children, and was therefore denounced as unjust ..
