Noa Reich

Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction

Finance, Family, and the Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by revealing its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. The book takes an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, reading contemporary political and legal discussions alongside Brontë, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781666938364
• ISBN-10: 166693836X
• Artikelnr.: 68887007

Autorenporträt

Noa Reich is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speculating on Inheritance in Victorian Fiction
Chapter One: "That Popular Character ... Call[ed] Another": Relational
Speculation in Our Mutual Friend
Chapter Two: "Houseless-ness" and the "Dead Pledge" in Wuthering Heights
Chapter Three: Seeing "No Guiltless Minds": Inheritance and Liability in
Collins's Armadale
Chapter Four: "Like the Inheritance of a Fortune": "Speckilation" and
Mortmain in Middlemarch
Conclusion: Will-dangling and Sphex Wasps: Towards an Afterlife of
Victorian Inheritance
Bibliography
About the Author