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Australian Humanities Review
no.
71
May
2023
26342310
2023
periodical issue
'IN HIS ESSAY ‘ON INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE’, JOHN FROW DESCRIBES A CONTRIVANCE OF certain Victorian novels hinging on ‘a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits’. While this plot device facilitates exploration of the role of the law in perpetuating the ‘grip of the old and the dead upon the young’, fictional treatments of the ‘postmortem transfer of assets’ frequently end in failure. Turning from Victorian fiction to our current situation, Frow extends the motif of ‘intergenerational injustice’ beyond the transfer of wealth to consider what it means to pass on our ‘world’ and ‘planet Earth’ to posterity' (Monique Rooney, Introduction)
2023
pg.
24-36
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