Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925.
Title:
Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925.
Author:
Frank, Cathrine O.
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9780754698647
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Writing the Will -- Introduction: Novel Bequests -- 1 Writing the Will: Victorian Testators and Legal Culture -- 2 Writing the Novel: Victorian Testators and Literary Culture -- Part 2 Proving the Will -- 3 Victorian Daughters and the Burden of Inheritance -- 4 Edwardian Sons and the Burden of Inheritance Redux -- Part 3 Contesting the Will -- 5 Broken Trusts: Cy Près, Fiction, and the Limits of Intention -- 6 Fictions of Justice: Testamentary Intention and the Illegitimate Heir -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Focusing on the rhetoric of the last will and testament, Cathrine O. Frank examines novels alongside actual wills, legal manuals, case law, and contemporary accounts of wills in periodicals. Her analysis of works by such authors as Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy shows how these related discourses competed to structure a social order based on the self-determining individual's relationship to a community and its commodified culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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