Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Subtitle: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521560948
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Genealogy in literature; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Dickens, Charles; Edgeworth, Maria; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Genealogy; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Domestic fiction, English; 19th century; Edgeworth, Maria,; English fiction
First sentence: George Meredith opens his unfinished novel, Celt and Saxon (published posthumously in 1910) with the chapter 'Excursion in a Celtic Mind' - in the mind, that is, of Patrick O'Donnell, a young Irishman travelling in England.