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The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland

Title
The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Sara L. Maurer.
Author
Maurer, Sara L.
Publication
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

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Description
x, 243 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • English fiction > History and criticism
  • Property in literature
  • Land tenure > History > Great Britain > 19th century
  • Land tenure > History > Ireland > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781421403274 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 1421403277 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2011021305
OCLC
  • ocn729064945
  • SCSB-14513048
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library