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

• Autore: Frank Cathrine O.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.8093554
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Law and literature - Great Britain - History; Wills - Great Britain - History; Wills in literature; Inheritance and succession in literature; Inheritance and succession - Great Britain - History
• Note generali: First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925
• ISBN: 1-351-92264-5; 1-315-25063-2; 1-283-14891-9; 9786613148919; 0-7546-9864-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815033503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II