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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction: forms of paternal authorityTraditional authority. Elizabeth Gaskell writes a father's life -- A father's conduct: George Meredith and the book-within-a-book -- Charismatic authority. "An attitude of decent reverence": Thackeray and the father at prayer -- "Lay hold of them by their fatherhood": George Eliot, persuasion, and abstraction -- Legal-rational authority. Samuel Butler at the museum -- "Preserve the shadow of the form": Hardy's Palimpsests -- Conclusion: the father as "type".
