Playing house in the American West : western women's life narratives, 1839-1987 / / [edited by] Cathryn Halverson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463271903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8173-8686-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HalversonCathryn
• Disciplina: 810.9/9287
• Soggetti: Autobiography - Women authors - History and criticism; Domestic space in literature; Women and literature - West (U.S.); Women authors, American - West (U.S.); Women in literature; Electronic books.; West (U.S.) In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Playing House on the Froniter - Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe; Chapter 2. ""Your Ex-Washlady"" : Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the Woman Homesteader of Wyoming; Chapter 3. ""Straight-Made in Nothing"" : Mary MacLane and Domestic Ritual; Chapter 4. Girls of the Limberlost : Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley; Chapter 5. ""Wind and Sun Are Good Housekeepers"" : The Domestic Narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa; Chapter 6. Camps, Caves, and Attics: Playing House in Willa Cather's Western Novels; Chapter 7. My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: Home Writing as Travel WritingChapter 8. Eating in, Eating Out, and Eating al Otro Lado: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me; Chapter 9. Searching for Home: Jean Stafford's West; Chapter 10. The Once and Future Home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here; Conclusion. ""I Am Going to 'Play Like' You Have Come""; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical ; texts-canonical and otherwise-Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor Cathryn Halverson uses in her engrossing study is "playing house." From Caroline Kirkland and Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather and Marilynne Robinson, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, western authors have persistently embraced wayward or eccentric housekeeping to

The worlds of the trust / / edited by Lionel Smith [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453104203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-89143-X; 1-107-27256-4; 1-107-27195-9; 1-107-27853-8; 1-107-27404-4; 1-107-27528-8; 1-139-50599-8; 1-107-27730-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 567 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 346.05/9
• Soggetti: Trusts and trustees
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Trusts : the essentials / Lusina Ho. -- The civil law trust : a modality of ownership or an interlude in ownership? / Yaëll Emerich. -- How to square the circle? The challenge met by Swiss insolvency law in dealing with common law trusts / Aude Peyrot. -- Can a modern legal system do without the trust? / Reinout Wibier. -- Stateless trusts / Lionel Smith. -- The security fiducie in French law / François Barrière. -- The trustee : mainspring, or only a cog, in the French fiducie? / Blandine ; Mallet-Bricout. -- British colonial law and the establishment of family waqfs by Arabs in the Straits Settlements, 1860-1941 / Nurfadzilah Yahaya. -- Zionist settlers and the English private trust in Mandate Palestine / Adam Hofri-Winogradow. -- Jurisprudential milestones in the development of trust law in South Africa's mixed legal system / François du Toit. -- The framing of a European law of trusts / Alexandra Braun.; The dilution of the trust / Gregory S. Alexander. -- The compatibility of the trust with the civil law notion of property / Paul Matthews. -- Categorically different : unintended consequences of trust taxonomy / Michael Lubetsky. -- Why civil law countries might forego the individual trustee : provocative insights from the new-to-the-fold / Iris J. Goodwin. -- The contribution of fiduciary law / Thomas P. Gallanis. -- Convergence and divergence in the worlds of the trust: duties and liabilities of trustees under the Chinese trust / Rebecca Lee. -- Trust law as fiduciary governance plus asset partitioning / Robert H. Sitkoff. -- Parallels between the civilian separate patrimony, real subrogation and the idea of property in a trust fund / Magda Raczynska. -- Rights against rights and real obligations / Remus Valsan. -- The trust and its civilian analogues / Ben McFarlane. -- Up there in the Begriffshimmel? / George Gretton.
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite the common belief that they are found only in the common law tradition, trusts have long been known in mixed jurisdictions even where they have a civilian law of property. Trusts have now been introduced by legislation in a number of civilian jurisdictions, such as France and China. Other recent developments include the reception of foreign trusts through private international law in Italy and Switzerland and the inclusion of a chapter on trusts in Europe's Draft Common Frame of Reference. As a result, there is a growing interest in the ways in which the trust can be accommodated in civil law systems. This collection explores this question, as well as general issues such as the juridical nature of the trust, the role and qualifications of the trustee and particular developments in specific jurisdictions.