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The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maurer, Sara L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Land tenure > Government policy > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Government policy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Property in literature.
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership
  • The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property
  • English property, Irish ownership and the British state
  • The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
  • At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.