Genealogical Fictions : Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel.

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.

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