Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 / Cathrine O. Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Cathrine O., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

Law and literature--Great Britain--History.

Law and literature.

Wills--Great Britain--History.

Wills.

Wills in literature.

Inheritance and succession in literature.

Inheritance and succession--Great Britain--History.

Inheritance and succession.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the rhetoric of the last will and testament, Cathrine O. Frank examines novels alongside actual wills, legal manuals, case law, and contemporary accounts of wills in periodicals. Her analysis of works by such authors as Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy shows how these related discourses competed to structure a social order based on the self-determining individual's relationship to a community and its commodified culture.

Contents:

Part I: Writing the will. Writing the will: Victorian testators and legal culture; Writing the novel: Victorian testators and literary culture

Part II: Proving the will. Victorian daughters and the burden of inheritance; Edwardian sons and the burden of inheritance redux

Part III: Contesting the will. Broken trusts: cy près, fiction, and the limits of intention; Fictions of justice: testamentary intention and the illegitimate heir.

Notes:

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-92264-5

1-315-25063-2

1-283-14891-9

9786613148919

0-7546-9864-5

9781315250632

OCLC:

638859507