Death, inheritance and the family : a study of literary responses to inheritance in seventeenth-century England

This thesis argues that a study of literary genres from the seventeenth century pertaining to death and inheritance in the family yields evidence about the way in which inheritance was understood and interpreted by early modern society; these genres include parental legacies, women writers’ interpre...

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Main Author: McKenzie, Sarah
Published: University of Warwick 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273517