Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History

✍ Scribed by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 200
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Spurious Issues....Pages 1-24
The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire....Pages 25-47
On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850....Pages 48-66
Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 67-92
The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime....Pages 93-118
Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century....Pages 119-147
Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830–90....Pages 148-172
Afterword....Pages 173-174
Back Matter....Pages 175-191

✦ Subjects

British and Irish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Social History; Cultural History; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory

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