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9780230576520

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

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    9780230576520

  • ISBN10:

    0230576524

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-08-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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

Author Biography

MARGOT FINN is Head of Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK.

MICHAEL LOBBAN is Professor of Legal History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vi
Notes on Contributorsp. vii
Introduction: Spurious Issuesp. 1
The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empirep. 25
On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and settlement around 1850p. 48
Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britainp. 67
The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crimep. 93
Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Centuryp. 119
Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830-90p. 148
Afterwordp. 173
Bibliographyp. 175
Indexp. 187
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