LEADER 04994nam 2200829 450 001 9910456361003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8507-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442685079 035 $a(CKB)2430000000002020 035 $a(EBL)3261264 035 $a(OCoLC)923082769 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395649 035 $a(PQKB)10374278 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00222071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)424349 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3261264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672381 035 $a(DE-B1597)464089 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938510 035 $a(OCoLC)944177097 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442685079 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672381 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258049 035 $a(OCoLC)958581394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000002020 100 $a20160923h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTroubled legacies $enarrative and inheritance /$fedited by Allan Hepburn 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-9110-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tContributors -- $tIntroduction: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Novel -- $t1. Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Domesticating Ireland, Disavowing Catholicism in The Wild Irish Girl / $rO'Malley, Patrick R. -- $t2. The Nation's Wife: England's Vicarious Enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels / $rMaurer, Sara L. -- $t3. Ghostly Dispossessions: The Gothic Properties of Uncle Silas / $rGaylin, Ann -- $t4. The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel Deronda / $rRose, Natalie -- $t5. A Battle of Wills: Solving The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / $rDavison, Carol Margaret -- $t6. E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey and the Legacy of Sentiment / $rDickson, Jay -- $t7. Heredity and Disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / $rClissold, Bradley D. -- $t8. Elizabeth Bowen and the Maternal Sublime / $rDibattista, Maria -- $t9. Good Graces: Inheritance and Social Climbing in Brideshead Revisited / $rHepburn, Allan -- $t10. Maternal Property and Female Voice in Banville's Fiction / $rPolley, Jason S. -- $tIndex 330 $aLast 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLegal stories, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLaw and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInheritance and succession in literature 606 $aWills in literature 606 $aProperty in literature 606 $aLaw in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLegal stories, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aInheritance and succession in literature. 615 0$aWills in literature. 615 0$aProperty in literature. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 676 $a823/.8093554 700 $aHepburn$b Allan, $0906411 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456361003321 996 $aTroubled legacies$92027017 997 $aUNINA