The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland /
Maurer, Sara L.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.
English fiction
English fiction
Property in literature.
Land tenure
Land tenure