Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations

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This 1999 study discusses what makes people believe they are part of a region, race or nation, and shows how ideas of ancestry and kinship, and the narratives inspired by or invented around them, were of profound significance in the construction of Victorian identity.

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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 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.

Author Biography

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

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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This 1999 study explores the importance of ideas and narratives of ancestry and kinship in constructing Victorian identity.

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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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This 1999 study discusses what makes people believe they are part of a region, race or nation, and shows how ideas of ancestry and kinship, and the narratives inspired by or invented around them, were of profound significance in the construction of Victorian identity.

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This 1999 study discusses what makes people believe they are part of a region, race or nation, and shows how ideas of ancestry and kinship, and the narratives inspired by or invented around them, were of profound significance in the construction of Victorian identity.

Details ISBN0521023572 Author Sophie Gilmartin Short Title ANCESTRY & NARRATIVE IN 19TH-C Pages 300 Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521023572 ISBN-13 9780521023573 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 18 Year 2005 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Royal Holloway, University of London Illustrations 11 Halftones, unspecified DOI 10.1604/9780521023573 UK Release Date 2005-11-24 AU Release Date 2005-11-24 NZ Release Date 2005-11-24 Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Publication Date 2005-11-24 Alternative 9780521560948 DEWEY 823.809355 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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