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

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

"Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property right...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maurer, Sara L. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press 2012.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Property in literature.
Land tenure > Government policy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Government policy > Ireland > History > 19th century.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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