Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-century Law, Literature and History
, by Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Bourne Taylor, Jenny- ISBN: 9780230576520 | 0230576524
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/15/2010
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