Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
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- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2005
Summary
This 1999 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 crea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521023573 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521023572 |
| Author: | Sophie Gilmartin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |
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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
About The Author
Sophie Gilmartin
Sophie Gilmartin is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of “Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” (CUP), has edited an edition of Anthony Trollope’s “The Last Chronicle of Barset” for Penguin Classics, and has published articles on Hardy, nineteenth-century poetry and painting, and Victorian widowhood.
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge where he is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Jesus College. He is the author of books on Charles Dickens, Emil
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