Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate,
2010.
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Sommario:
- Part I: Writing the will. 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.