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Author:

Maurer, Sara L.

Title:

The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Sara L. Maurer.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Property in literature.
Land tenure--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Land tenure--History--Ireland--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

ISBN:

1421403277 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781421403274 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)729064945

LCCN:

2011021305

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)