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Author:

Gilmartin, Sophie.

Title:

Ancestry and narrative in nineteenth-century British literature : blood relations from Edgeworth to Hardy / Sophie Gilmartin.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Edgeworth, Maria,--1767-1849--Genealogy.--Genealogy.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Genealogy.--Genealogy.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Genealogy in literature.
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
Family in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275) and index.

Contents:

Oral and written genealogies in Edgeworth's The absentee -- A mirror for matriarchs: the cult of Mary Queen of Scots in nineteenth-century literature -- Pedigree, nation, race: the case of Disraeli's Sybil and Tancred -- 'A sort of Royal family': alternative pedigrees in Meredith's Evan Harrington -- Pedigree, sati and the widow in Meredith's The egoist -- Pedigree and forgetting in Hardy -- Geology and genealogy: Hardy's The well-beloved.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 18

ISBN:

9780521560948
0521560942

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38120540

LCCN:

97047557

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)