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: November 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780521023573
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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.