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Heredity and Paternity

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For the purposes of this discussion we shall confine the vast subject indicated by the title to a brief examination of the relationships between biology, one of the sciences concerned with heredity and paternity, and the ideological superstructures which these notions necessarily bring into play,1 as seen through certain literary texts.

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  1. Montaigne, ‘On the resemblance of children to their fathers’ in The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, II, Charles Cotton trans. (London: Dell, 1913) p. 495.

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  2. Dante, The Divine Comedy Vol II: Purgatory, Mark Musa trans. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981) p. 270.

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  3. Richerand, Nouveaux éléments de physiologie Tome II, (Paris: Béchet 1825) p. 459.

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  4. François Jacob, La Logique du vivant (Paris: Collection Tel Gallimard, 1970).

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  5. Goethe, Elective Affinities, David Constantine trans., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) p. 6. See also p. 54: ‘Besides, [Ottilie’s] whole disposition was towards the house and domestic matters, rather than towards the world and a life in the open air’.

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  6. Michelet, L’Amour (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1859) p. 207.

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  7. Balzac, L’Enfant maudit, in La Comédie humaine (Paris: Gallimard (Pléiade), 1979 Tome X, p. 876.

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  8. Jean Borie, Mythologie de l’hérédité au XIXème siècle, (Paris: Galilée, 1981) pp. 38–9.

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  1. Max Andréoli
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  1. Kingston University, UK

    Lieve Spaas (Professor of French Cultural Studies) (Professor of French Cultural Studies)

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© 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Andréoli, M. (1998). Heredity and Paternity. In: Spaas, L. (eds) Paternity and Fatherhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13816-6_2

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