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Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy

Family Lineage and Narrative Lines

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  • © 1997

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  1. Tess O’Toole

    1. McGill University, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Tess O’Toole
    Pages 1-16

  3. Fictitious Families

    • Tess O’Toole
    Pages 17-44

  4. Narrative Coercion

    • Tess O’Toole
    Pages 45-92

  5. Gender and Genre:Women and the Family Script

    • Tess O’Toole
    Pages 93-124

  6. Narrative Jamming in the Family Saga

    • Tess O’Toole
    Pages 125-154

  7. Epilogue

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    Pages 155-174

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-195
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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. As well as analyzing Hardy's characteristic treatment of family history, this volume revises existing accounts of genealogical narrative, and in its conclusion considers the presence in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels of motifs foregrounded in Hardy's work.

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