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Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
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Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
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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 essayshighlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Spurious Issues
- 2 The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire
- 3 On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850
- 4 Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 5 The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime
- 6 Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century
- 7 Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830â90
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index