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The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Sara L. Maurer
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Description for The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Hardback. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies-property, the state, and national identity-and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested ... Read more
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 rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421403274
SKU
9781421403274
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About Sara L. Maurer
Sara L. Maurer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Reviews for The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Maurer's innovative and considerable insights into nineteenth-century property issues will undoubtedly prove a valuable resource for those exploring colonial and postcolonial issues in literature. Meticulously researched, Maurer offers a scholarly and occasionally ironic voice to this growing field of study.
Shannon Scott New Hibernia Review The work Sara L. Maurer offers here operates in a broader critical frame and ... Read more
Shannon Scott New Hibernia Review The work Sara L. Maurer offers here operates in a broader critical frame and ... Read more