Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Writing the Will 1; title: Introduction: Novel Bequests 3; title: 1. Writing the Will: Victorian Testators and Legal Culture 21; title: 2. Writing the Novel: Victorian Testators and Literary Culture 65; title: Part 2: Proving the Will 103; title: 3. Victorian Daughters and the Burden of Inheritance 105; title: 4. Edwardian Sons and the Burden of Inheritance Redux 135; title: Part 3: Contesting the Will 163; title: 5. Broken Trusts: <i>Cy Pres</i>, Fiction, and the Limits of Intention 165; title: 6. Fictions of Justice: Testamentary Intention and the Illegitimate Heir 191