{"product_id":"inheritance-and-speculation-in-victorian-noa-reich-9781666938364","title":"Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law\u003c\/i\u003e investigates 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 Bront?'s \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend\u003c\/i\u003e (1864-65), Wilkie Collins's\u003ci\u003e Armadale\u003c\/i\u003e? (1866), and George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003ci\u003eInheritance and Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e thus not only illuminates the integral role played by inheritance in Victorian fiction's mediation of the credit economy, but also offers a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noa Reich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 166693836X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666938364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Noa Reich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46173102866687,"sku":"9781666938364","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b02db920-c5f9-4204-badc-ab426547f5b8.jpg?v=1727179998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inheritance-and-speculation-in-victorian-noa-reich-9781666938364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}