Genealogical fictions : cultural periphery and historical change in the modern novel
Jobst Welge
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
| Omfang | X, 254 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Periphery and Genealogy in the Novel of the Celtic Fringe -- Progress and Pessimism in the Sicilian Family Novel -- National and Genealogical Crisis in Spain -- Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration in the Regional Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazan -- The Novel of Portuguese Decline: Dissolution and Disillusion in Eca de Queiros' Os Maias -- Machado de Assis' Esau e Jaco and the Problem of Historical Representation -- The Last of the Line: Regional Genealogies/Geographies -- Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo -- Epilogue: The Perspective from the End.. - "Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel's relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience of historical and social change in regions or nations perceived as "peripheral." Though geographically and temporally diverse, the novels Welge considers all demonstrate a relation among family and national history, genealogical succession, and generational experience, along with social change and modernization. Welge's wide-ranging comparative study focuses on the novels of the late nineteenth century, but it also includes detailed analyses of the pre-Victorian origin of the genealogical-historical novel and the evolution of similar themes in twentieth-century literature. Moving through time, he uncovers often-unsuspected novelistic continuities and international transformations and echoe s, from Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, to G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 book Il Gattopardo.By revealing the "family resemblance" of novels from Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, this volume shows how genealogical narratives take on special significance in contexts of cultural periphery. Welge links private and public histories, while simultaneously integrating detailed accounts of various literary fields across the globe. In combining theories of the novel, recent discussions of cultural geography, and new approaches to genealogical narratives, Genealogical Fictions addresses a significant part of European and Latin American literary history in which texts from different national cultures illuminate each other in unsuspected ways and reveal the repetition, as well as the variation, among them. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel
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| Emner | Assis, Machado de , 1839-1908
De Roberto, Federico Edgeworth, Maria , 1767-1849 Pardo Bazán, Emilia , condesa de , 1851-1921 Vis mer... Pérez Galdós, Benito , 1843-1920
Queirós, Eça de Rego, José Lins do Scott, Walter , 1771-1832 Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe , 1896-1957 Verga, Giovanni , 1840-1922 Brazilian fiction - History and criticism. European fiction - History and criticism. Families in literature. Genealogy - Social aspects. Literature and history. Social change in literature. Social change - Brazil. Social change - Europe. Familier (Grupper) Litteratur Motiver Romaner Samfunn Sosial endring |
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| ISBN | 142141435X. - 9781421414355
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