TY - BOOK AU - Maurer,Sara L. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland SN - 9781421404509 AV - PR878.P728 D57 2012 U1 - 823/.809 23 PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Land tenure KW - Government policy KW - Ireland KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - Property in literature KW - English fiction KW - Irish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/12864/ ER -