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Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy(Series Number 18 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy(Series Number 18 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)


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This study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the Victorian novel. Through readings of a range of literary texts, Sophie Gilmartin explores questions fundamental to the national and racial identity of Victorian Britons: what makes people believe that they are part of a certain region, race or nation? is this sense of belonging based on superstitious beliefs, invented traditions, or fictions created to gain a sense of unity or community? As Britain extended her empire over foreign nations and races, questions of blood relations, of assimilation and difference, and of national and racial definition came to the fore. Gilmartin's study shows how the ideas of ancestry and kinship, and the narratives inspired by or invented around them, were of profound significance in the construction of Victorian identity.

Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Textual note: the novels; Introduction; 1. Oral and written genealogies in Edgeworth's The Absentee; 2. A mirror for matriarchs: the cult of Mary Queen of Scots in nineteenth-century literature; 3. Pedigree, nation, race: the case of Disraeli's Sybil and Tancred; 4. 'A sort of Royal family': alternative pedigrees and class in Meredith's Evan Harrington; 5. Pedigree, sati and the widow in Meredith's The Egoist; 6. Pedigree and forgetting in Hardy; 7. Geology and genealogy: Hardy's The Well-Beloved; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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"...Gilmartin provides interesting readings of a number of novels often passed over in the study of Victorian fiction, and she heightens the reader's awareness of a subject that was important to the Victorians and should be given due consideration by those who would understand the age's fiction." Choice


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  • ISBN-13: 9780521560948
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 298
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Series Number 18 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
  • Sub Title: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0521560942
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 657 gr


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