Inheritance in Nineteenth-century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge and the Family

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes
Introduction
	Inheritance and Revolution
	Discussing Inheritance After 1804
	Successions, Direct and Collateral
	Family Knowledge
PART I: INHERITANCE STRUGGLES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
	1 The Politics of Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century France
		The Family According to Le Play
		Very Small and Exactly the Same
		Testamentary Liberty
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 1
	2 All About My Uncle: Narratives of Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century France
		The Meaning of Uncles
		Uncles from America
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 2
PART II: FAMILY KNOWLEDGE IN THE FRENCH NOVEL OF INHERITANCE
	3 The Power of the Will in Balzac’s Ursule  Mirouët
		Original Versus Collatéral
		Minoret, Paterfamilias?
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 3
	4 Being of Sound Mind: The Forbidden Knowledge of Maupassant’s Subversive Testaments
		The Novel of Enlightenment and the Novel of Ignorance
		Sibling Rivalry
		‘The Truth is Out There’
		Disavowal as Social Practice
		A Touch of the Vapours
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 4
	5 Heirs of Darkness: Women’s Writing on Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century France
		Romans d’éducation
		Women Beware Women
		Women and the Avunculate
		Notes to Chapter 5
		Donation entre vifs...
		...tonner contre?
		Community and Prophecy
		Community and Property
		Patrilinearity and Collateralism
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 6
	6 Donner et retenir ne vaut: Gift and Discourse in Zola’s La Terre
		Donation entre vifs...
		Community and Prophecy
		Community and Property
		Patrilinearity and Collateralism
		Conclusion
		Notes to Chapter 6
Conclusion
	Notes to the Conclusion
Bibliography
	Primary Material: Literature
	Primary Material: Other Pre-1900 Sources
	Secondary Material
Index