Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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Evidence for Significant Skew and Low Heritability of Competitive Male Mating Success in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti by Claudia A. S. Wyer, Vladimir Trajanovikj, Brian Hollis, Alongkot Ponlawat, Lauren J. Cator

“…We compared measures of male mating success between fathers and sons and between full siblings to estimate the heritability of the trait in the narrow h 2 and broad H 2 sense, respectively. …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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