| Description |
1 online resource (vii unnumbered pages, 250 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 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 |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Law and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Wills -- Great Britain -- History.
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Wills. |
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Wills in literature.
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Wills in literature. |
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Inheritance and succession in literature.
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Inheritance and succession in literature. |
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Inheritance and succession -- Great Britain -- History.
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Inheritance and succession. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frank, Cathrine O. Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010 9781409400141 (DLC) 2009047678 (OCoLC)469916636 |
| ISBN |
9780754698647 (electronic book) |
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0754698645 (electronic book) |
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9781409400141 |
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140940014X |
| Standard No. |
9786613148919 |
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