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Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction

Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781666938371
ISBN-13 : 1666938378
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Book Synopsis Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction by : Noa Reich

Download or read book Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction written by Noa Reich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance. While recent criticism has concentrated on this fiction’s engagement with newer financial forms, this book contends that Victorian novels both attest to the persistence of inheritance and reveal its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. Focusing on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Wilkie Collins’s Armadale¬ (1866), and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72), each chapter explores a recurring pattern of contrast and conflation between inheritance and financial speculation. Taking an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, Reich shows how this pattern gives narrative shape to concerns that were also emerging in contemporary political and legal debates around succession, bequest, landed estates, and conceptions of the family. Attending to the novels’ concrete and figurative allusions to these forms as well as their tentative alternatives, Reich also illustrates how the novels’ self-reflexive subversion of both characters and readers’ expectations based on inheritance conventions challenge our modes of reading. Inheritance and Speculation thus not only illuminates the integral role played by inheritance in Victorian fiction’s mediation of the credit economy, but also offers a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.


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