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I. Criminality
'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear
The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug
II. Temporality
Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste
On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
III. Adoption and Inheritance
The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property
Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.
'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear
The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug
II. Temporality
Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste
On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
III. Adoption and Inheritance
The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property
Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.