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Informationen zum Autor Valerie Sanders is Professor of English at the University of Hull. Her interest in Margaret Oliphant began with Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists (Macmillan,1996), and she has since contributed four edited volumes to the Pickering and Chatto Masters project, Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, including a scholarly edition of Hester (1883). Other edited work includes two volumes of Records of Girlhood (Ashgate, 2000 and 2012), anthologies of nineteenth-century women's childhoods, and she has also published widely on Harriet Martineau, most recently a co-edited essay collection, with Gaby Weiner, Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines (Routledge, 2016). Her monographs include The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (CUP, 2009). Klappentext A new study of Victorian middle-class fatherhood using the private diaries and letters of influential public men. Zusammenfassung This is a study of Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective. It aims to dismantle the classic stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the lives of influential public men! ranging from novelists to politicians! scientists and leading churchmen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: looking for the Victorian father; 1. The failure of fatherhood at mid-century: four case histories; 2. Theatrical fatherhood: Dickens and Macready; 3. 'How?' and 'Why?': Kingsley as educating father; 4. Matthew and Son (and Father): the Arnolds; 5. 'A fine degree of paternal fervour': scientifc fathering; 6. Death comes for the Archbishop (and Prime Minister); Conclusion.
