Legitimacy and illegitimacy in nineteenth-century law, literature and history
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Legitimacy and illegitimacy in nineteenth-century law, literature and history
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index
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Description
This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Spurious Issues
- J.B.Taylor, M.Finn & M.Lobban The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire
- M.Finn On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850
- J.McDonagh Unauthorised Identities: the Imposter, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- R.McWilliam The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime
- R.McGowen Commercial morality and the common law: or, paying the price of fraud in the later Nineteenth Century
- M.Lobban Dirty laundry: Exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890
- T.Alborn Afterword Bibliography Index
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