Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History [electronic resource] /
Finn, Margot.editor.
Lobban, Michael.editor.
Taylor, Jenny Bourne.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.