Disputed Titles

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

Natasha Tessone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2015
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-709-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2015
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 239 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61148-709-9 / 1611487099
ISBN-13	978-1-61148-709-1 / 9781611487091
Zustand	Neuware