Genealogical Fictions : Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel.
Welge, Jobst.
Genealogical Fictions : Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Periphery and Genealogical Discontinuity: The Historical Novel of the Celtic Fringe -- 3 Progress and Pessimism: The Sicilian Novel of Verismo -- 4 National and Genealogical Crisis: The Spanish Realist Novel -- 5 Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration: The Spanish Regional Novel -- 6 Dissolution and Disillusion: The Novel of Portuguese Decline -- 7 Surface Change: A Brazilian Novel and the Problem of Historical Representation -- 8 The Last of the Line: Foretold Decline in the Twentieth-Century Estate Novel -- 9 Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: Time, Place, and Modernity in a Sicilian Historical Novel -- 10 Epilogue: The Perspective from the End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.
9781421414362
European fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
European fiction-20th century-History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction-20th century-History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Social change in literature.
Social change-Europe.
Social change-Brazil.
Genealogy-Social aspects.
Literature and history.
Electronic books.
PN3499 .W45 2015
809.3/9355
Genealogical Fictions : Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Periphery and Genealogical Discontinuity: The Historical Novel of the Celtic Fringe -- 3 Progress and Pessimism: The Sicilian Novel of Verismo -- 4 National and Genealogical Crisis: The Spanish Realist Novel -- 5 Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration: The Spanish Regional Novel -- 6 Dissolution and Disillusion: The Novel of Portuguese Decline -- 7 Surface Change: A Brazilian Novel and the Problem of Historical Representation -- 8 The Last of the Line: Foretold Decline in the Twentieth-Century Estate Novel -- 9 Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: Time, Place, and Modernity in a Sicilian Historical Novel -- 10 Epilogue: The Perspective from the End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.
9781421414362
European fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
European fiction-20th century-History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction-20th century-History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Social change in literature.
Social change-Europe.
Social change-Brazil.
Genealogy-Social aspects.
Literature and history.
Electronic books.
PN3499 .W45 2015
809.3/9355