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It is in Hardy’s multi–generational plots that genealogical patterns are most subject to fictive interventions, for his characteristic treatment of family history stresses the mediating role narratives play in its unfolding. Narratives do not simply record the family history; they also direct it.
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© 1997 Teresa M. O’Toole
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O’Toole, T. (1997). Narrative Coercion. In: Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372184_3
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