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 2PART 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 WomenWomen 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
