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Title:

Legitimacy and illegitimacy in nineteenth-century law, literature and history / edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 191 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Illegitimacy in literature
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
Law--Great Britain--History

Other Authors:

Finn, Margot C.
Lobban, Michael.
Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : spurious issues / Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor -- The Barlow bastards : romance comes home from the empire / Margot Finn -- On settling and being unsettled : legitimacy and settlement around 1850 / Josephine McDonagh -- Unauthorised identities : the Imposter, the fake and the secret history in nineteenth-century Britain / Rohan McWilliam -- The Fauntleroy forgeries and the making of white-collar crime / Randall McGowen Commercial morality and the common law : or, paying the price of fraud in the later nineteenth century / Michael Lobban -- Dirty laundry : exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890 / Timothy Alborn.

Summary:

"Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

ISBN:

0230576524 (hardback)
9780230576520 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317926694

LCCN:

2010002683

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)