Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bront?, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521591414
ISBN13:9780521591416
Release Date:February 1998
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Related Subjects
Criticism & Theory English Literature Europe Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Victorian Wales Women Writers Women's StudiesCustomer Reviews
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