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Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History / edited by M. Finn, M. Lobban, J. Bourne Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, 2634-6508
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Social history.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Spurious Issues; 2 The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire; 3 On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850; 4 Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 5 The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime; 6 Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century; 7 Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830-90; Afterword; Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612993992
- 9781282993990
- 1282993992
- 9780230277250
- 023027725X
- OCLC:
- 696331172
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