Cathrine O Frank

Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925

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Produktbeschreibung

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 BrontÃ', 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781409400141
• ISBN-10: 140940014X
• Artikelnr.: 45162558

Autorenporträt

Cathrine Frank is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New England, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part I Writing the Will: Introduction: novel bequests
Writing the will: Victorian testators and legal culture
Writing the novel: Victorian testators and literary culture. Part II Proving the Will: Victorian daughters and the burden of inheritance
Edwardian sons and the burden of inheritance redux. Part III Contesting the Will: Broken trusts: Cy Près, fiction and the limits of intention
Fictions of justice: testamentary intention and the illegitimate heir
Conclusion
Works cited
Index.