Dickens and the Daughter of the House
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider world, so they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's secret inheritance,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521440769
ISBN13:9780521440769
Release Date:February 2000
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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