{"product_id":"ancestry-and-narrative-in-nineteenth-century-british-literature-blood-relations-from-edgeworth-to-hardy-hardback-9780521560948","title":"Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy (Hardback) 9780521560948","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAncestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1999 study explores the importance of ideas and narratives of ancestry and kinship in constructing Victorian identity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSophie Gilmartin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521560948, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 February 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Textual note: the novels\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Oral and written genealogies in Edgeworth's The Absentee\u003cbr\u003e 2. A mirror for matriarchs: the cult of Mary Queen of Scots in nineteenth-century literature\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pedigree, nation, race: the case of Disraeli's Sybil and Tancred\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'A sort of Royal family': alternative pedigrees and class in Meredith's Evan Harrington\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pedigree, sati and the widow in Meredith's The Egoist\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pedigree and forgetting in Hardy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Geology and genealogy: Hardy's The Well-Beloved\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004414021912,"sku":"9780521560948","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521560948i_28fd3b30-bc66-442e-8d1e-1582e09543bc.jpg?v=1691369794","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ancestry-and-narrative-in-nineteenth-century-british-literature-blood-relations-from-edgeworth-to-hardy-hardback-9780521560948","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}