The dispossessed state
Subtitle: narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland
By: Sara L. Maurer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781421403274
Subjects: History; Government policy; English fiction; Property in literature; History and criticism; Irish authors; Land tenure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership; title: The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property; title: English property, Irish ownership and the British state; title: The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels; title: 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.