Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: women, work, and home
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1. Verfasser: Cohen, Monica F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 1998
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 14
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index
"Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century, and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalized culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology."--Jacket
Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism -- Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette -- Dickens I: Great expectations and vocational domesticity -- Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home: institutionalization and form -- Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt -- A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 216 pages)
ISBN:0511008082
9780511008085

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