Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 [electronic resource] / Cathrine O. Frank.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010.Description: 249 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.8093554 22
LOC classification:
  • PR878.L43 F73 2010eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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