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Author Jamoussi, Zouheir.

Title Primogeniture and Entail in England : a Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; GENERAL CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.
Summary This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates. This double approach roughly covers the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Although this inheritance custom usually made the elder son sole heir to the whole paternal estate, to the exclusion and sometimes the utter impoverishment of the other children, and was therefore denounced as unjust ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Inheritance and succession in literature.
Inheritance and succession in literature.
Inheritance and succession -- England.
Inheritance and succession.
England.
Primogeniture in literature.
Primogeniture in literature.
Primogeniture -- England.
Primogeniture.
Birth order -- England.
Birth order.
Brothers in literature.
Brothers in literature.
Entail -- England.
Entail.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1600-1900.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Jamoussi, Zouheir. Primogeniture and Entail in England : A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2011 9781443828642
ISBN 9781443830607 (electronic book)
1443830607 (electronic book)
9781443828642 (Cloth)
1443828645 (Cloth)
1283143038
9781283143035
Standard No. 9786613143037