Introduction: Inheriting the Novel -- "Mementi of ancient national splendour": Sydney Owenson's Ireland -- Prophesying the Past: Guy Mannering and Scott's Grid of Inheritence -- "Arresting fleeting property": Inheritance and the (Il)legitimacy of Historical Discourse in Scott's The Antiquary -- Inheritance of Blunder: Maria Edgeworth's Ireland -- Fielding Fielding: Irish Tom Jones and a Plea for Passion in Maria Edgeworth's Ormond -- A "fraud against nature": John Galt's The Entail.
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Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
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