Introduction: inheritance and disinheritance in the novel / Allan Hepburn
Owenson's 'Sacred union': domesticating Ireland, disavowing Catholicism in The wild Irish girl / Patrick R. O'Malley
The nation's wife: England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels / Sara L. Mauer
Ghostly dispossessions: the Gothic properties of Uncle Silas / Ann Gaylin
The Englishness of a gentleman: illegitimacy and race in Daniel Deronda / Natalie Rose
A battle of wills: solving The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Carol Margaret Davison
E.M. Forster's The longest journey and the legacy of sentiment / Jay Dickson
Heredity and disinheritance in Joyce's Portrait / Bradley D. Clissold
Elizabeth Bowen and the maternal sublime / Maria DiBattista
Good graces: inheritance and social climging in Brideshead revisited / Allan Hepburn
Maternal property and female voice in Banville's fiction / Jason S. Polley.
Troubled legacies : narrative and inheritance. ISBN 9780802091109. Published by University of Toronto Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.