Troubled legacies
Subtitle: narrative and inheritance
By: edited by Allan Hepburn
Contributors: Hepburn, Allan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780802091109
Subjects: Legal stories, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Inheritance and succession in literature; Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Property in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: inheritance and disinheritance in the novel / Allan Hepburn; title: Owenson's 'Sacred union': domesticating Ireland, disavowing Catholicism in The wild Irish girl / Patrick R. O'Malley; title: The nation's wife: England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels / Sara L. Mauer; title: Ghostly dispossessions: the Gothic properties of Uncle Silas / Ann Gaylin; title: The Englishness of a gentleman: illegitimacy and race in Daniel Deronda / Natalie Rose; title: A battle of wills: solving The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Carol Margaret Davison; title: E.M. Forster's The longest journey and the legacy of sentiment / Jay Dickson; title: Heredity and disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Bradley D. Clissold; title: Elizabeth Bowen and the maternal sublime / Maria DiBattista; title: Good graces: inheritance and social climging in Brideshead revisited / Allan Hepburn; title: Maternal property and female voice in Banville's fiction / Jason S. Polley