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

, by Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Bourne Taylor, Jenny

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ISBN: 9780230576520 | 0230576524
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/15/2010

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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

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Acknowledgements	p. vi
Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Spurious Issues	p. 1
The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire	p. 25
On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and settlement around 1850	p. 48
Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain	p. 67
The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime	p. 93
Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century	p. 119
Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830-90	p. 148
Afterword	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 175
Index	p. 187
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Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-century Law, Literature and History

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