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BL
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982184
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b736554
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| Title & Author
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Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history /\ edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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viii, 191 pages ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0230576524
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: 9780230576520
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : spurious issues / Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor -- The Barlow bastards : romance comes home from the empire / Margot Finn -- On settling and being unsettled : legitimacy and settlement around 1850 / Josephine McDonagh -- Unauthorised identities : the Imposter, the fake and the secret history in nineteenth-century Britain / Rohan McWilliam -- The Fauntleroy forgeries and the making of white-collar crime / Randall McGowen Commercial morality and the common law : or, paying the price of fraud in the later nineteenth century / Michael Lobban -- Dirty laundry : exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890 / Timothy Alborn.
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| Abstract
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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Illegitimacy in literature.
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Law-- Great Britain-- History.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Englisch.
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Englisch.
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Englische Literatur-- Gesellschaft-- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Englische Literatur-- Gesellschaft-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Englische Literatur-- Motiv-- Uneheliches Kind.
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English literature.
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Identität.
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Illegitimacy in literature.
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Law.
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Literatur.
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Literatur.
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Literature and society.
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Motiv.
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Nichteheliches Kind.
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Nichteheliches Kind.
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Recht.
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Recht.
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Uneheliches Kind-- Motiv-- Englische Literatur.
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Uneheliches Kind-- Grossbritannien-- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Uneheliches Kind-- Grossbritannien-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Verbrechen.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/3552
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| LC Classification
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PR448.I49L44 2010
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| Added Entry
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Finn, Margot C.
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Lobban, Michael.
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Taylor, Jenny Bourne,1949-
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