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Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 [electronic resource] / Cathrine O. Frank.

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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 Bront, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy sh...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Frank, Cathrine O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Law and literature > Great Britain > History.
Wills > Great Britain > History.
Wills in literature.
Inheritance and succession in literature.
Inheritance and succession > Great Britain > History.
English fiction.
Inheritance and succession.
Law and literature.
Wills.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Writing the will : Victorian testators and legal culture
  • Writing the novel : Victorian testators and literary culture
  • Victorian daughters and the burden of inheritance
  • Edwardian sons and the burden of inheritance redux
  • Broken trusts : cy près, fiction, and the limits of intention
  • Fictions of justice : testamentary intention and the illegitimate heir.

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