Troubled legacies narrative and inheritance / edited by Allan Hepburn. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: inheritance and disinheritance in the novel / Owenson's 'Sacred union': domesticating Ireland, disavowing Catholicism in The wild Irish girl / The nation's wife: England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels / Ghostly dispossessions: the Gothic properties of Uncle Silas / The Englishness of a gentleman: illegitimacy and race in Daniel Deronda / A battle of wills: solving The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / E.M. Forster's The longest journey and the legacy of sentiment / Heredity and disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Elizabeth Bowen and the maternal sublime / Good graces: inheritance and social climging in Brideshead revisited / Maternal property and female voice in Banville's fiction / Allan Hepburn -- Patrick R. O'Malley -- Sara L. Mauer -- Ann Gaylin -- Natalie Rose -- Carol Margaret Davison -- Jay Dickson -- Bradley D. Clissold -- Maria DiBattista -- Allan Hepburn -- Jason S. Polley.




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English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Legal stories, English--History and criticism.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Inheritance and succession in literature.
Wills in literature.
Property in literature.
Law in literature.
Real property in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR878 / .T768 2007