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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hepburn, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal stories, English--History and criticism.

Legal stories, English.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Inheritance and succession in literature.

Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

Law and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Property in literature.

History.

Great Britain.

Real property in literature.

Local Subjects:

Real property in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802091109

0802091105

OCLC:

123892203