Research Catalog

Title

Troubled legacies : narrative and inheritance / edited by Allan Hepburn.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Hepburn, Allan.

Description

viii, 297 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Legal stories, English > History and criticism
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Inheritance and succession in literature
• Real property in literature
• Law and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Novel / Allan Hepburn -- 1. Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Domesticating Ireland, Disavowing Catholicism in The Wild Irish Girl / Patrick R. O'Malley -- 2. The Nation's Wife: England's Vicarious Enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels / Sara L. Maurer -- 3. Ghostly Dispossessions: The Gothic Properties of Uncle Silas / Ann Gaylin -- 4. The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel Deronda / Natalie Rose -- 5. A Battle of Wills: Solving The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Carol Margaret Davison -- 6. E. M. Forster's The Longest Journey and the Legacy of Sentiment / Jay Dickson -- 7. Heredity and Disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Bradley D. Clissold -- 8. Elizabeth Bowen and the Maternal Sublime / Maria Dibattista -- 9. Good Graces: Inheritance and Social Climbing in Brideshead Revisited / Allan Hepburn -- 10. Maternal Property and Female Voice in Banville's Fiction / Jason S. Polley.

ISBN

• 9780802091109 (bound)
• 0802091105 (bound)

OCLC

• 123892203
• SCSB-5369074

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries