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

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

          
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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 and against nature, it also had its unflinching supporters. Indeed there was enough weight in the socio-political arguments of the latter to explain why this custom continued to dominate English social life for so long. This fundamental contradiction was at the heart of an ideological debate in which the plight of younger sons and the relationship between the individual, the nuclear and patrilineal family were among the issues permanently discussed. Neither were these issues the only hotly debated primogeniture-related questions. Indeed there was not one major economic, social and political development throughout the period examined to which primogeniture and entail did not directly or indirectly relate. The survey of the ideological debate on primogeniture and entail undertaken here is, to our knowledge, unprecedented. Moreover, primogeniture and entail were perceived by playwrights and novelists as a major cultural phenomenon and treated as such. The overview of their literary representation attempted here is, we believe, also unprecedented. As may be expected, emphasis throughout this book is laid on the interaction between history and literature.
About the Author: Zouheir Jamoussi was born in 1941 in Tunisia. He studied English Literature and History at the universities of Tunis (Tunisia), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France). His teaching from 1971 to 2002 at the University of Tunis mainly focused on 18th century English literature and history. He is the author of La Liberte dans l'oeuvre de Defoe: entre la realite et la fiction (2001) and The Snare in the Constitution: Defoe and Swift on Liberty (2009).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443828642
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 700 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1443828645
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 295
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature
  • Width: 165 mm


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