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

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Margot Finn

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Michael Lobban

    1. University of London, UK

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  3. Jenny Bourne Taylor

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Spurious Issues

    • Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, Jenny Bourne Taylor
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire

    • Margot Finn
    Pages 25-47

  4. On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850

    • Josephine McDonagh
    Pages 48-66

  5. Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    • Rohan McWilliam
    Pages 67-92

  6. The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime

    • Randall McGowen
    Pages 93-118

  7. Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century

    • Michael Lobban
    Pages 119-147

  8. Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830–90

    • Timothy Alborn
    Pages 148-172

  9. Afterword

    • Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, Jenny Bourne Taylor
    Pages 173-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-191
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About this book

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 essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period.

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'...several of the essays offer interesting and worthwhile material... Perhaps, most appealing to literary scholars will be Jo McDonagh's 'On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850'. A subtle analysis of the languages of settlement in George Coode's 1851 parliamentary report on the New Poor Law and Charles Dickens' 1852-3 novel Bleak House , this essay exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship at its best.' - Routledge ABES June 2011

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Margot Finn

  • University of London, UK

    Michael Lobban

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Jenny Bourne Taylor

About the editors

TIMOTHY ALBORN Professor of History, Lehman College, University of New York City, USA MICHAEL LOBBAN Professor of Legal History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK RANDALL MCGOWEN Professor of History, University of Oregon, USA ROHAN MCWILLIAM Senior Lecturer in British and American History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH Professor of English Literature, King's College, University of London, UK MARGOT FINN Professor of Modern British history, University of Warwick, UK JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK

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