Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Novel Subjects, Novel Genealogies 1
5. Part I. Models of Generation
6. Introduction: Historical Semantics of Generation 27
7. 1: The Formation of the Self: Biology and Pedagogy around 1800 31
8. 2: Cultivated Resemblance: Imitation and Education in the Novel 57
9. Part II. Text as Testament
10. Introduction: Testament, Testify, Testation 93
11. 3: Direct Testation: Legal Inheritance, Plot Inheritance, Origin Stories 96
12. 4: Indirect Testation: Documents, Written Culture, and the Writing of Life 119
13. Conclusion: Novel Instability 146
14. Notes 159
15. Bibliography 181
16. Index 191