Natasha Tessone

Disputed Titles (eBook, PDF)

Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832

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Produktbeschreibung

Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance-often impeded, disrupted inheritance-to the novel's rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott, and John Galt are densely populated by orphans, changelings, and lost and kidnapped heirs, and privilege a romance plot of dispossession that undermines the illusion of continuity implicit in the very concept of legacy. Through narratives of illegitimate ownership and other similar genealogical aberrations, authors from Britain's "peripheries" interrogate their equivocal places in the uneasy compound of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Moving between the local and global manifestations of inheritance, their novels imagine history as contested property in order to explore vital issues of historic transition and political legitimacy, issues of immense consequence in the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216356165
• Artikelnr.: 74845748

Autorenporträt

Natasha Tessone is associate professor in the English Department at Oberlin College, where she teaches courses on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such journal as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Éire-Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: Inheriting the Novel 1. "[M]ementi
of ancient national splendour": Sydney Owenson's Ireland 2. Prophesying the
Past: Guy Mannering and Scott's Grid of Inheritance 3. "Arresting fleeting
property": Inheritance and the (Il)legitimacy of Historical Discourse in
Scott's The Antiquary 4. Legacy of Blunder: Maria Edgeworth's Ireland 5.
Fielding Fielding: Irish Tom Jones and a Plea for Passion in Maria
Edgeworth's Ormond 6. A "fraud against aature": John Galt's The Entail
Notes Bibliography Index About the Author