.... Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 literary epistemology presumptions Anthony Trollope illegitimacy law and literature As evident in its title and like many other realist novels of its period, Anthony Trollope's Is He Popenjoy? ( 1877–78 ) is permeated with doubt. Even before...

... the daughter of a nobody, a tradesman wealthy enough to provide his daughter with an education and decent enough to keep his identity secret. Emma mentally comments that "[tlhe stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed" (394). Emma believes that wealth...

...). Dispossession heightens the Irish sense of possession. ‘‘Illegitimacy writes Maurer, ‘‘guarantees inalienable attachment to property’’ (46). Maurer traces this rhetoric of dispossession from an early tale of Edgeworth’s, ‘‘Simple Susan through the national tales, Castle Rackrent and Ennui (1809...

...). However, this murder, Iike all the crimes to follow, does not subvert the old order so much as it asserts the moral subject, buttressed by virtue, over the legal personality as a bearer of rights and duties. If the foundationlessness or "illegitimacy" of the revolutionary assertion of "abso- lute...

... at Swift, Johnson, and Richardson . Berkeley : U of California P , 1964 . Schmidgen Wolfram . “Illegitimacy and Social Observation: The Bastard in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” ELH 69 ( 2002 ): 133 – 66 . Slattery William C. , ed. The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence...

... and intellectual order that reigned in Europe up until the French Revolution. The insistent discourse on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the novel in these times—the discursive formation of a language game on “the novel”—grew out of the need for telling stories about ordinary people in a serious style, so...

... Photographs’ and the Jewish Body in Daniel Deronda.” Representations 85 ( 2004 ): 58 – 97 . Picker John M. “George Eliot and the Sequel Question.” New Literary History 37 . 2 ( 2006 ): 361 – 88 . Rose Natalie . “The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel...

... of the stigma attached to illegitimacy, but it does not defend sex outside marriage; and as important as these scenarios are to the novel, neither is directly linked to what it presents as its more public concerns, such as Chan- cery and poverty. By contrast, Crafts broadcasts the equivalent connections...

... or incapacity, competence or incompetence, participation or nonpar- ticipation, legitimacy or illegitimacy. The nexus between aesthetics and politics hinges on what they share/divide in common: a sensible and its distribution. Politics, or an act of political ‘‘subjectivation refers to ‘‘an enunciative...

... on the suspected illegitimacy of a key character, is rooted in the epistemological conundrums of a world prior to genetic testing. The “reality” generated through such realism rests on “a presumption of knowing” that is manifestly fictitious. Trollope's subject, therefore, is not the world as it is, but the world...

... and not Mathieu because he is the ultimate hero; he is the one who presents to the reader an image of the world's illegitimacy. The reader—free to judge the novel on its own terms—therefore unbinds his or her decisions from the set of oppositions that point to a readily intelligible politics and that the novel...

..." to determine the illegitimacy of this frame. Just as James had been compelled to draft such legisla- tion as modernism began its emphasis on testimony, Genette's seminal work up- dates the ordinance to better police its post-Edwardian development. In Narrative Discourse, he writes, Chatman here...

... ideology and morality . . . that the novel's default position [is] conservative and hegemonic,” advances such a view (1). She instead finds the nineteenth-century novel to be “deeply experimental” when viewed in light of its engagement with the concept of illegitimacy (7). Her position also merits careful...

..., Makiya experiences an intellectual awakening in the work of Hannah Arendt, from which he distills three primary lessons: how revolutionary violence, typi- cally a means to an end, then becomes an end in itself; how violent revolutionary actors evolve from illegitimacy to legitimacy, ‘‘politically...

..., his mother turned to the Catholic church, whose influence on Waite’s writings was profound. Also, Waite’s illegitimacy may provide a key to the fictional Wait’s race, his sense of aggrievement, and his status as an outsider on a ship whose complement is hardly homogeneous to begin with. Given...