State v. Estate: Jane Austen and the Law of Inheritance
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Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman
Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman is Professor of English Literature. She started university teaching at the Università degli Studi of Milano. In 1986 she was given the chair of English in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Università di Chieti and in 1990 she moved to the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM of Milano where she was Head of the Curriculum in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages (2003–2008). She founded the Language Centre, which later became Centre for Digital studies and Humanities Laboratory. Since 2000 she has directed the Tristram Shandy Web (http://www.tristramshandyweb.it/), a digital edition of Sterne's novel. She is now member of the Committee for the scientific evaluation of research-products for the Humanities (CIVR) and of the ESF Pool of Reviewers. She has published widely in the fields of the theory of narrative, the history of the novel, 18th century British literature and art, new communication technologies and visual arts, literature and law. Her recent publications include numerous articles on Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Laurence Sterne and the book Il romanzo inglese del Settecento. La poetica alle origini della narrativa moderna (2008).
Abstract
In Austen's novels, the social, economic and legal culture of her times reverberates in a continuous interplay between text and context. The contemporary law of inheritance plays a central role in her heroines' stories, establishing that connection between state and estate which marks their destiny, transforming what seems objective and general into a subjective and personal experience.
About the author
Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman is Professor of English Literature. She started university teaching at the Università degli Studi of Milano. In 1986 she was given the chair of English in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Università di Chieti and in 1990 she moved to the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM of Milano where she was Head of the Curriculum in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages (2003–2008). She founded the Language Centre, which later became Centre for Digital studies and Humanities Laboratory. Since 2000 she has directed the Tristram Shandy Web (http://www.tristramshandyweb.it/), a digital edition of Sterne's novel. She is now member of the Committee for the scientific evaluation of research-products for the Humanities (CIVR) and of the ESF Pool of Reviewers. She has published widely in the fields of the theory of narrative, the history of the novel, 18th century British literature and art, new communication technologies and visual arts, literature and law. Her recent publications include numerous articles on Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Laurence Sterne and the book Il romanzo inglese del Settecento. La poetica alle origini della narrativa moderna (2008).
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- Frontmatter
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- State v. Estate: Jane Austen and the Law of Inheritance
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- Interrelations Between Law and Culture: Iain M. Banks's The Player of Games
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Focus: Law, Literature and (Popular) Culture
- State v. Estate: Jane Austen and the Law of Inheritance
- Women, Property and Identity in Victorian Legal Culture: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
- Interrelations Between Law and Culture: Iain M. Banks's The Player of Games
- Working at the Intersection of the Humanities, Law and Technology: Digital Humanities and the ``Two Cultures''
- For a New Semantics of Differences: Cultural Exception and the Law
- True Blood: Multicultural Vampires in Contemporary Society
- Research
- Legal Liturgies: The Aesthetic Foundation of Positive Law
- Modernity, Experience, and the Law in The Education of Henry Adams
- Violation of Human Rights in Holocaust/Post-Holocaust Era
- Defining Legal Vagueness: A Contradiction in Terms?
- Book Review
- Book Review
