Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines.(Review)
From: The Modern Language Review
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Date: 4/1/2000
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Author: Gilmartin, Sophie
Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines. By TESS O'TOOLE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1997. ix + 195 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].
Tess O'Toole's book is an important new contribution to the study of Hardy's fiction, but its intense focus on Hardy's narrative patterns perhaps detracts from its value as an introduction to the centrality of ideas of genealogy in the nineteenth-century novel. O'Toole claims that 'in [Hardy's] case the ...
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