1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456361003321

Autore

Hepburn Allan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-8507-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

823/.8093554

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Legal stories, English - History and criticism

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

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

Inheritance and succession in literature

Wills in literature

Property in literature

Law in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Novel -- 1. Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Domesticating Ireland, Disavowing Catholicism in The Wild Irish Girl / O'Malley, Patrick R. -- 2. The Nation's Wife: England's Vicarious Enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels / Maurer, Sara L. -- 3. Ghostly Dispossessions: The Gothic Properties of Uncle Silas / Gaylin, Ann -- 4. The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel Deronda / Rose, Natalie -- 5. A Battle of Wills: Solving The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Davison, Carol Margaret -- 6. E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey and the Legacy of Sentiment / Dickson, Jay -- 7. Heredity and Disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Clissold, Bradley D. -- 8. Elizabeth Bowen and the Maternal Sublime /



Dibattista, Maria -- 9. Good Graces: Inheritance and Social Climbing in Brideshead Revisited / Hepburn, Allan -- 10. Maternal Property and Female Voice in Banville's Fiction / Polley, Jason S. -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Last wills and testaments create tensions between those who inherit and those who imagine that they should inherit. As Victorian, modern, and contemporary novels amply demonstrate, seldom is more energy expended than at the reading of a will. Whether inheritances bring disappointment or jubilation, they create a pattern for the telling of stories, stories that involve the transmission of legacies ? cultural, political, and monetary ? from one generation to the next. Troubled Legacies examines these narratives of inheritance in British and Irish fiction from 1800 to the present.The essays in this collection set out to juxtapose legal and novelistic discourse. This reading of literature against law produces intriguing and often provocative assertions about the specific relationship between novels and inheritance. As the contributors argue, novels reinforce property law, an argument bolstered by the examples of women, workers, Jews, and Irishmen dispossessed of their rights and unable to claim their cultural inheritances. Troubled Legacies thoroughly examines the connection between narrative and claims to legal entitlement, a topic that has not, to date, been comprehensively broached in literary studies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691654603321

Autore

Parker Henry S

Titolo

Agricultural bioterrorism [[electronic resource] ] : a federal strategy to meet the threat / / Henry S. Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, , 2002

Collana

McNair paper, , 1071-7552 ; ; 65

Soggetti

Agriculture - Defense measures - United States

Bioterrorism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First printing, March 2002"--T.p. verso.

Title from title screen.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697907703321

Titolo

An Act to Modify Pay Provisions Relating to Certain Senior-level Positions in the Federal Government, and for Other Purposes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. G.P.O.], , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic text (4 unnumbered pages) : HTML, digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Government executives - Salaries, etc - United States

United States Officials and employees Salaries, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 27, 2009).

"Oct. 8, 2008 (S. 1046)."

"122 Stat. 4043."



"Public Law 110-372."