Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel - Women, Work and Home

Klappentext Revisionary study of how domestic work gained social credibility through the language of professionalism. Zusammenfassung Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of fictional narratives! to show how domestic work gained social credibility through the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. Her study questions the stereotypes of Victorian domesticity! and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism; 2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette; 3. Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity; 4. Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form; 5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt; 6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda; Afterword.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Monica Feinberg Cohen, Cohen Monica Feinberg
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021180
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02118-0
• Seiten: 232
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form