TY - BOOK ID - 77915024 TI - Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 PY - 2016 SN - 1351922645 1315250632 1283148919 9786613148919 0754698645 9780754698647 9781409400141 140940014X 113826055X PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Law and literature KW - Wills KW - Wills in literature. KW - Inheritance and succession in literature. KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Bequests KW - Descent and distribution KW - Descents KW - Hereditary succession KW - Intestacy KW - Intestate succession KW - Law of succession KW - Succession, Intestate KW - Real property KW - Universal succession KW - Trusts and trustees KW - Codicils KW - Legal instruments KW - Registers of births, etc. KW - Legacies KW - Probate records KW - Remainders (Estates) KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77915024 AB - Focusing on the rhetoric of the last will and testament, Cathrine O. Frank examines novels alongside actual wills, legal manuals, case law, and contemporary accounts of wills in periodicals. Her analysis of works by such authors as Emily Brontèˆ, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and John Galsworthy shows how these related discourses competed to structure a social order based on the self-determining individual's relationship to a community and its commodified culture. ER -