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Victorian Domesticity
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Author : Charles Strickland
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1985
Victorian Domesticity written by Charles Strickland and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.
The subject of Victorian Domesticity is family life in America. The life and works of Louisa May Alcott served as the vehicle for exploring and analyzing this subject. Although Alcott was deeply influenced by popular currents of sentimentality, her own experience exposed her to the confusions and contradictions generated when sentiment confronted the reality of life in 19th-century America. In the first chapter Strickland outlines the ways in which sentimentality colored the perception of 19th-century Americans about such issues as courtship, marriage, the relationship between the sexes, generational relationships, and the relationship between the nuclear family and the community outside the family. Chapters two and three trace Alcott’s childhood and adolescent experiences, exploring the tensions that developed between Louisa and her father, and detailing the ways in which she carried the double burden of being both poor and female as she sought her identity as a writer. The following six chapters treat the varieties of family life that appear in Alcott’s stories, the impact of feminism on her life, and her emphasis on the importance of child nurture. In the final two chapters the author treats the relationships that Alcott perceived between the family and the world around it and assesses the legacy of the Victorian family idea.
Professional Domesticity In The Victorian Novel
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Author : Monica F. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-05
Professional Domesticity In The Victorian Novel written by Monica F. Cohen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Brontë, 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 professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.
Victorian Domesticity And The Perpetuation Of Childhood An Examination Of Gender Roles And The Family Unit In J M Barrie S Peter Pan
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Author : Abigail Nusbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Victorian Domesticity And The Perpetuation Of Childhood An Examination Of Gender Roles And The Family Unit In J M Barrie S Peter Pan written by Abigail Nusbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Families in literature categories.
This work examines JM Barrie's Peter Pan in light of its cultural context. It works to show how the Victorian ideology of the separate spheres narrowed the scope of roles for men and women within the home, which ultimately led to an obsession with childhood that manifested itself strongly in the works of the children of the Victorians, the Edwardians. A study of the Victorian society in which Barrie grew up and first imagined Peter Pan, accompanied by a close reading of the text, reveals Barrie using the various characters' interactions with the title character as cultural artifacts that illuminate and critique rigidly prescribed Victorian gender roles. This study also shows how the ideologies of the time resulted in the obsession with childhood which allowed men to remain boyish but mournful when girls became mothers. Barrie's work provides a journey through which the reader may follow the various characters, and Wendy especially, as they question and accept the prevailing roles of the time, moving through the process of mourning childhood in order to step into adulthood without the lingering vestiges of a lost childhood.
Pets And Domesticity In Victorian Literature And Culture
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Author : Monica Flegel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Pets And Domesticity In Victorian Literature And Culture written by Monica Flegel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.
Domesticity Imperialism And Emigration In The Victorian Novel
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Author : Diana C. Archibald
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2002
Domesticity Imperialism And Emigration In The Victorian Novel written by Diana C. Archibald and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Inside The Victorian Home
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Author : Judith Flanders
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2005-11-01
Inside The Victorian Home written by Judith Flanders and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with History categories.
Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Domesticating Narratives
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Author : David A. Welshhans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Domesticating Narratives written by David A. Welshhans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with English literature categories.
Gender And Rationality
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Author : Ellen Burton Harrington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Gender And Rationality written by Ellen Burton Harrington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Domestic Space
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Author : Janet Floyd
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1999
Domestic Space written by Janet Floyd and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Families categories.
This volume takes forward the debate about 19th-century domestic space, drawing on economic history and literary criticism. To date, studies of 19th-century domestic space have discussed a feminized, middle class sphere, often using domestic guides and fictional representations of domesticity to generate their arguments.
The Victorian House
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Author : Judith Flanders
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 2003
The Victorian House written by Judith Flanders and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A middle class home, circa 1850, of the sort that many people live in today, is the focus of Judith Flanders' book. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.