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Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy »

Authors: Sophie Gilmartin, Gillian Beer
ISBN-13: 9780521023573, ISBN-10: 0521023572
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The importance of ideas and narratives of ancestry and kinship in constructing Victorian identity.

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Textual note: the novels
	Introduction	1
1	Oral and written genealogies in Edgeworth's The Absentee	23
2	A mirror for matriarchs: the cult of Mary Queen of Scots in nineteenth-century literature	54
3	Pedigree, nation, race: the case of Disraeli's Sybil and Tancred	102
4	'A sort of Royal Family': Alternative pedigrees in Meredith's Evan Harrington	130
5	Pedigree, sati and the widow in Meredith's The Egoist	163
6	Pedigree and forgetting in Hardy	195
7	Geology and genealogy: Hardy's The Well-Beloved	226
	Conclusion	246
	Notes	252
	Bibliography	267
	Index	276