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Title:

Troubled legacies : narrative and inheritance / edited by Allan Hepburn.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 297 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Legal stories, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Inheritance and succession in literature.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Property in literature

Other Authors:

Hepburn, Allan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0802091105 (bound)
9780802091109 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)123892203

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)