The dispossessed state [electronic resource] : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Sara L. Maurer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

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