Victorian Families In Fact And Fiction
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Victorian Families In Fact And Fiction
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Author : Penny Kane
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 1997-03-01
Victorian Families In Fact And Fiction written by Penny Kane and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Using biographies, letters, diaries, demographic data, and dozens of Victorian novels, this book presents statistical, personal, and imaginative records of changes in family size as well as in education, economy, and social organization in 19th century Britain. The nineteenth-century transition to a small family size in the Western world was unprecedented, and the reasons people began to have fewer children are still not clear. Using contemporary novels, letters, biographies and poetry, this book brings forward the voices of the past to give their own comments and views on a wide range of issues which may have influenced that decision. Individuals in fact and fiction discuss families, love and marriage, as well as childbearing, child survival and what children meant to them - and their reactions to unwanted pregnancies. Their experiences reflect and amplify the demographic evidence of the period, and add life to the statistics. In the same way, their perspectives on education, religion and the ideas and controversies of the period, as well as on social mobility and social change, provide personal notes to the historical background against which their voices are heard.
The Fantasy Of Family
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Author : Elizabeth Thiel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
The Fantasy Of Family written by Elizabeth Thiel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.
Victorian Life And Victorian Fiction
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Author : Jo McMurtry
language : en
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Release Date : 1979
Victorian Life And Victorian Fiction written by Jo McMurtry and has been published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
McMurtry describes aspects of Victorian life: titles and social rank, fashions, heirarchies of servants, religious custom and controversy, politics, education, courtship and marriage, crime, money, and the whole system of subtle graded snobbery that is important for the understanding of social satire and comedy from the Victorian era.
The Victorian Family
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Author : Anthony S. Wohl
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-17
The Victorian Family written by Anthony S. Wohl and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with History categories.
First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms. Subjects treated in the nine essays include the Victorian attitude to childbirth, the role of the nanny, the power of the upper-class paterfamilias, the pattern of family work and fertility, and incest among the Victorian working classes. The book is introduced by a critical survey of the state of family history and the need for new studies. From the essays, the Victorian family emerges as both a refuge from society and a springboard into it, and as an important unit for the study of the repression and exploitation of women and children in Victorian society. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and society.
The Maternal Voice In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Barbara Z. Thaden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
The Maternal Voice In Victorian Fiction written by Barbara Z. Thaden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain social and legal status for mothering in a society in which married women were not legal entities and children born in wedlock were the inalienable property of their fathers. These writers used dead mother plots which reversed New Testament parables so that the mother plays the leading role, and maternal circle plots, which portray adult daughters and their mothers raising children outside marriage. This fiction, which showed how children benefit from good mothering, was instrumental in married mothers eventually obtaining equal parental rights.
The Truth About Family
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Author : Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Truth About Family written by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
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.
Dysfunctional Families In The Wessex Novels Of Thomas Hardy
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Author : Lois Bethe Schoenfeld
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2005
Dysfunctional Families In The Wessex Novels Of Thomas Hardy written by Lois Bethe Schoenfeld and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Family & Relationships categories.
Examines how portrayals of families in Hardy's novels are used to comment on the socio-historical changes in Victorian England.
Family Ties In Victorian England
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Author : Claudia Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-02-28
Family Ties In Victorian England written by Claudia Nelson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-28 with History categories.
The Victorians were passionate about family. While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction—that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of family, which continues both to influence and to help explain visions of family today. Drawing upon a wide variety of 19th-century fiction and nonfiction, Nelson examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced. For many Victorians, family was exalted to the status of secular religion, endowed with the power of fighting the contamination of unchecked commercialism or sexuality and holding out the promise of reforming humankind. Although in practice this ideal might have proven unattainable, the many detailed 19th-century descriptions of the outlook and behavior appropriate to fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and other family members illustrate the extent of the pressure felt by members of this society to try to live up to the expectations of their culture. Defining family to include the extended family, the foster or adoptive family, and the stepfamily, Nelson considers different roles within the Victorian household in order to gauge the ambivalence and the social anxieties surrounding them—many of which continue to influence our notions of family today.
Writing The Victorians
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Author : Rudolph Glitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Writing The Victorians written by Rudolph Glitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with English literature categories.