Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925
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cultural transmission theory
Dead Beat
Dead Beat Dads
Edwardian social history
Edwardian Sons
Edwardian Writers
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fiction
Forsyte Saga
General Charitable Intent
General Charitable Intention
Gregory's Son
Gregory’s Son
heights
howards
Howards End
inheritance law in nineteenth-century Britain
Inheritance Plot
intention
Laura's Identity
Laura’s Identity
legal
Legal Plot
literary realism studies
Marriage Plot
Married Women
Married Women's Property Laws
Married Women's Property Reform
Married Women’s Property Laws
Married Women’s Property Reform
Mens Rea
Popular Science
Popular Science Monthly
probate law analysis
Real Girl
Scarborough's Family
Scarborough’s Family
testamentary
testamentary inheritance
Testamentary Intention
Vice Versa
Victorian legal culture
wills
Wills Act
wuthering
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- ISBN 9781409400141
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O. Frank examines fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian eras alongside actual wills, legal manuals relating to their creation, case law regarding their administration, and contemporary accounts of curious wills in periodicals. Her study begins with the Wills Act of 1837 and poses two basic questions: What picture of Victorian culture and personal subjectivity emerges from competing legal and literary narratives about the will, and how does the shift from realist to modernist representations of the will accentuate a growing divergence between law and literature? Frank’s examination of works by Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Samuel Butler, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, and E.M. Forster reveals the shared rhetorical and cultural significance of the will in law and literature while also highlighting the competition between these discourses to structure a social order that emphasized self-determinism yet viewed individuals in relationship to the broader community. Her study contributes to our knowledge of the cultural significance of Victorian wills and creates intellectual bridges between the Victorian and Edwardian periods that will interest scholars from a variety of disciplines who are concerned with the laws, literature, and history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Cathrine Frank is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New England, USA.
