Dickens and the Daughter of the House

Klappentext Examines the role of 'legless angels' (George Orwell)! 'angry women' and 'good daughters' in Dicken's narratives. Zusammenfassung The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire! but as a bearer of cultural values - and as a potentially disruptive force. The daughter's secret inheritance! her 'portion'! is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Making Fictions: 1. The uncanny daughter: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and the progress of Little Nell; Part II. On Not Committing Adultery in the Novel: 2. Dombey and Son: the daughter's nothing; 3. Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities: the social inheritance of adultery; Part III. The Daughter's Portion: 4. Bleak House and the dead mother's property; 5. Amy Dorrit's prison notebooks; Part IV. A Violent Conclusion: 6. In the shadow of Satis House: the woman's story in Great Expectations; 7. Our Mutual Friend and the daughter's book of the dead; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Hilary M. Schor, Hilary M. (University of Southern Californi Schor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521042635
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04263-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies