Troubled legacies : narrative and inheritance /

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Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Legal stories, English -- History and criticism. Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Inheritance and succession in literature. Wills in literature. Property in literature. Law in literature. English fiction. Inheritance and succession in literature. Law and literature. Law in literature. Legal stories, English. Property in literature. Wills in literature. Great Britain. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208258

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Other authors / contributors:	Hepburn, Allan, editor.
ISBN:	9781442685079 1442685077 9780802091109 0802091105
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Troubled legacies. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 9780802091109

Table of 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.

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