...This chapter charts the decline of the redemptive disability plot in the work of George Eliot and Henry James, arguing that the shift in the plotting of disability over the course of the late nineteenth century illuminates the period’s shifting attitudes to realism. Examining inherited plots...

...Orphan narratives are often closely concerned with ensuring a sound inheritance or refurbishing a damaged one. In 1876, two orphaned heroines were created for whom such refurbishment becomes the defining duty of their teenage years and the main substance of each novel, namely: Her Father’s...

... coinage weights and measures Lothian William Kerr and marquess North Britain Scottish Parliament whales dead at Kirkcaldy Revolution inheritance Political management Economic debates Duke of Hamilton Protestantism Whigs Jacobites Absolutism Monarchy Those government members who dared...

... of England The Tono Bungay Poe Edgar Allan Roylott Gothic Inheritance Stepdaughter Adder Dr Grimesby Roylott, the wicked stepfather in ‘The Speckled Band’, is one of Conan Doyle’s most grotesque, gothic villains. Like several other evildoers in the Holmes stories – Jonathan Small in The Sign...

... things in life than the right words in the right order. Moreover, it reviews some of the ways in which Shakespeare is understood in the critical tradition in order to make it clear why Thom Gunn, of all modern poets, has one of the strongest claims to Shakespeare's inheritance. Gunn's conscious...

... in Susan Howe, conceptual poetry in Kenneth Goldsmith, and issues of linguistic inheritance and colonialism in M. NourbeSe Philip, this chapter demonstrates how the problem of ‘the given’ troubles contemporary authors. No longer simply a question of divine inspiration, or the role of the poet as giver...

... how the specifics of sexual differentiation and trait inheritance support the view that the male contribution works as form on material through the material capacity of heat. The female contribution is similarly shown to be capable of resisting the male contribution and can loosen the male’s ability...

... ‘the horseman’s word’ breathed in the lug [ear o the blin’fauld halflin. [blindfolded; adolescent (Light 58) This chapter analyses Paterson's work in terms of national identity, inheritance, and literary history, considering...

.... Responding to recent work by Nicole Pepperell on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx, it addresses the role of the hand in inheritance, and concludes by demonstrating that textual contact is always both a manipulation and a manoeuvre involving one or more phantom limbs. Bowen Elizabeth ghost...

...Building on the legacy of Laura Peters’ landmark work, Orphan Texts (2000), and extending its analyses to new work in family, marriage and kinship studies, Rereading Orphanhood: Texts Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can...

... and time also sustains a politics of inheritance that moves between binding and unbinding. Obama Barack Tea Party United States of America American Constitution Arendt Hannah Baraka Amiri Coates Ta Nehisi Krugman Paul authority constituent power constitutions French Revolution law power...

... improperly disinherited. This chapter analyzes the legal issues raised in these events, paying particular regard to those matters concerning the law of inheritance. Centumviral court Patriapotestas Augustus Hadrian Mancipatio Sui heredes Cretio Hereditas damnosa Bonorum possessio Capitis diminutio...

...Like the orphan figure, literary modernism can be characterised by its complex and often contested relations with the past, especially the Victorian past, whose influences were still palpable. Modernist responses range from the rejection of inherited values, distilled in the injunction to ‘Make...

... the influence of orphanhood through debates about legal representation, charity, the role of benefactors, and into debates about gender, agency and the limits of humanity. The role of inheritance frequently recurs in these discussions, interrogated as both a resource and a burden. The question of inheritance...

... Louisiana and Scotland have implemented inheritance laws. It focuses on one significant aspect of intestacy, the position of the surviving spouse, and how each system achieves the dual goals of preference and protection. Both Scottish and Louisiana law have very different inheritance rights...

... which was no longer dramatic but narratice, i.e. epic poetry. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin French Court Ballet Choreography and Dramatic Forms the inheritance of Aristotle's rules It was customary in the seventeenth century to assimilate court ballet with drama, as both art forms were seen...

... describes the flower as ‘mothers, daughters of their daughters’, Malabou targets the logic of inheritance as a ‘double game’. On the one hand, the inheritor follows the predecessor and is shaped passively by the tradition. On the other hand, the inheritor follows, comes after, the predecessor and thus gives...

... is passed down an exclusively male line of inheritance. ancestors biography De Quincey Thomas intertextuality Knole law Sackville West Vita sex vision Woolf Virginia writings abstraction autobiography eroticism gender poetics temporality space transformation transition s Woolf Virginia...

... this supposition of a ‘Greek legacy’ or ‘Greek inheritance’ has been mediated through British television documentaries. Whether the legacy is used as a framing device for wider assessments of ancient Greek society, or is the focus of direct investigation, the notion of a legacy is sustained. However, at every turn...

... objects things Old Curiosity Shop The Dombey and Son Our Mutual Friend eighteenth century influence patrimony inheritance quotation What did ‘the eighteenth century’ mean to Dickens? In A Child’s History of England (1853) Dickens virtually stopped his narrative at 1688...