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Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history/ edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor.
other author:	Finn, Margot C.
Published:	Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 191 p.)
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 18th century -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230277250 (electronic bk.)

Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history
Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history[electronic resource] /edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor. - Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource (viii, 191 p.) - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.

Introduction: Spurious Issues / J.B. Taylor, M. Finn & M. Lobban -- The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire / M. Finn -- On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850 / J. McDonagh -- Unauthorised Identities: the Imposter, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain / R. McWilliam -- The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime / R. McGowen -- Commercial morality and the common law: or, paying the price of fraud in the later Nineteenth Century / M. Lobban -- Dirty laundry: Exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890 / T. Alborn.

This innovative collection of essays by prominent scholars from the disciplines of literary studies, history and law explores the many ways in which notions of legtitimacy were shaped and contested in Georgian and Victorian Britain. It probes the difficulties of drawing boundaries between the legitimate and the illegitimate which continued to trouble Victorian society and which were explored in novels such as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. The essays in this collection show how dilemmas over legitimacy unsettled families by challenging clear lines of inheritence; they also unsettles society, as forgers and imposters defrauded individuals, estates and institutions through widely publicised social performances which fascinated both contemporary culture and called into question the idea of legitimacy itself.

ISBN: 9780230277250 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786612993992

Source: 343942Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

560013
English literature
--History and criticism.--18th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR448.I49 / L44 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3552

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