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Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 /
Focusing on the rhetoric of the last will and testament, Cathrine O. Frank examines novels alongside actual wills, legal manuals, case law, and contemporary accounts of wills in periodicals. Her analysis of works by such authors as Emily Bront, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Focusing on the rhetoric of the last will and testament, Cathrine O. Frank examines novels alongside actual wills, legal manuals, case law, and contemporary accounts of wills in periodicals. Her analysis of works by such authors as Emily Bront, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy shows how these related discourses competed to structure a social order based on the self-determining individual's relationship to a community and its commodified culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource ([vii], 250 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409400141 140940014X 9780754698647 0754698645 |