Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History

1. Introduction: Spurious Issues
Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, Jenny Bourne Taylor

2. The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire
Margot Finn

3. On Settling and Being Unsettled: Legitimacy and Settlement around 1850
Josephine McDonagh

4. Unauthorized Identities: The Impostor, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Rohan McWilliam

5. The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime
Randall McGowen

6. Commercial Morality and the Common Law: or, Paying the Price of Fraud in the Later Nineteenth Century
Michael Lobban

7. Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behaviour in Life Insurance Trials, 1830–90
Timothy Alborn

8. Afterword
Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, Jenny Bourne Taylor

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Social History, Cultural History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory