Troubled Legacies : : Narrative and Inheritance / / Allan Hepburn.
Last wills and testaments create tensions between those who inherit and those who imagine that they should inherit. As Victorian, modern, and contemporary novels amply demonstrate, seldom is more energy expended than at the reading of a will. Whether inheritances bring disappointment or jubilation,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Novel
- 1. Owenson's 'Sacred Union': Domesticating Ireland, Disavowing Catholicism in The Wild Irish Girl / O'Malley, Patrick R.
- 2. The Nation's Wife: England's Vicarious Enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels / Maurer, Sara L.
- 3. Ghostly Dispossessions: The Gothic Properties of Uncle Silas / Gaylin, Ann
- 4. The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel Deronda / Rose, Natalie
- 5. A Battle of Wills: Solving The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Davison, Carol Margaret
- 6. E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey and the Legacy of Sentiment / Dickson, Jay
- 7. Heredity and Disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Clissold, Bradley D.
- 8. Elizabeth Bowen and the Maternal Sublime / Dibattista, Maria
- 9. Good Graces: Inheritance and Social Climbing in Brideshead Revisited / Hepburn, Allan
- 10. Maternal Property and Female Voice in Banville's Fiction / Polley, Jason S.
- Index