Primogeniture and Entail in England : a Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature.

By:

Jamoussi, Zouheir

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443830607
1443830607
9781443828642
1443828645
1283143038
9781283143035

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Primogeniture and Entail in England : A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature.DDC classification:

820.935254

LOC classification:

PR406.F36

Other classification:

HG 260
HG 439

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; GENERAL CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

Summary: This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates. This double approach roughly covers the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Although this inheritance custom usually made the elder son sole heir to the whole paternal estate, to the exclusion and sometimes the utter impoverishment of the other children, and was therefore denounced as unjust ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART TWO; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; GENERAL CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates. This double approach roughly covers the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Although this inheritance custom usually made the elder son sole heir to the whole paternal estate, to the exclusion and sometimes the utter impoverishment of the other children, and was therefore denounced as unjust ...