Noa Reich
Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law
Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law
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Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction explores how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance, focusing on Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend, Wilkie Collinss Armadale, and George Eliots Middlemarch. It argues that Victorian novels attest to the persistence of inheritance and reveal its unsettling affinities with speculative forms, offering a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 30 August 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books
Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law explores 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 fictions' mediation of the credit economy, but also offers a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666938364
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