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

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 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

  1. Cover
  2. Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. 1 Introduction: Spurious Issues
  7. 2 The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire
  8. 3 On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850
  9. 4 Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  10. 5 The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime
  11. 6 Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century
  12. 7 Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830–90
  13. Afterword
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index