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Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
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Product Description: 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. Sophie Gilmartin discusses what makes people believe that they are part of a certain region, race or nation, and what part is played by superstitious belief, invented traditions and fictions...read more
By Sophie Gilmartin
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9780521560948 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $124.99

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9780521023573 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: 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.

The Hesiodic Catalogue Of Women: Constructions And Reconstructions
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By Richard L. Hunter (editor)
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9780521836845 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $120.00

Pruning the Genealogical Tree: Procreation and Lineage in Literature, Law, and Religion
By Gian Balsamo
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9780838754092 | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $46.50

Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines
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Product Description: Tess O'Toole uncovers Hardy's career-long fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing. Hereditary patterns are the product of narrative compulsion; the circulation of the family story is necessary to reproduce the history it records...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Tess O'Toole
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9780312174620 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1997, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Tess O'Toole uncovers Hardy's career-long fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing.

Gender and Genealogy in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
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Product Description: Using feminist, psychoanalytic, and deconstructionist approaches to Torquato Tasso's 1581 "Gerusalemme Liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered"), this work argues that Tasso explored alternate modes of writing and reading by reflecting on the genealogical tales of his non-Christian women characters Clorinda, Erminia, and Armida...read more
By Marilyn Migiel
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9780773493926 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Using feminist, psychoanalytic, and deconstructionist approaches to Torquato Tasso's 1581 "Gerusalemme Liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered"), this work argues that Tasso explored alternate modes of writing and reading by reflecting on the genealogical tales of his non-Christian women characters Clorinda, Erminia, and Armida.

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