Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history /
[Book]
edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
viii, 191 pages ;
23 cm.
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
Introduction : spurious issues / Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor -- The Barlow bastards : romance comes home from the empire / Margot Finn -- On settling and being unsettled : legitimacy and settlement around 1850 / Josephine McDonagh -- Unauthorised identities : the Imposter, the fake and the secret history in nineteenth-century Britain / Rohan McWilliam -- The Fauntleroy forgeries and the making of white-collar crime / Randall McGowen Commercial morality and the common law : or, paying the price of fraud in the later nineteenth century / Michael Lobban -- Dirty laundry : exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890 / Timothy Alborn.
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"Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by publisher.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Illegitimacy in literature.
Law-- Great Britain-- History.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 18th century.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.
Englisch.
Englisch.
Englische Literatur-- Gesellschaft-- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Englische Literatur-- Gesellschaft-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Englische Literatur-- Motiv-- Uneheliches Kind.
English literature.
Identität.
Illegitimacy in literature.
Law.
Literatur.
Literatur.
Literature and society.
Motiv.
Nichteheliches Kind.
Nichteheliches Kind.
Recht.
Recht.
Uneheliches Kind-- Grossbritannien-- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Uneheliches Kind-- Grossbritannien-- Geschichte 19. Jh.