Dickens and the Politics of the Family
Catherine Waters
The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality; yet any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured families. Drawing on feminist and new historicist methodologies, Catherine Waters argues that Dickens' novels record a shift in notions of the family away from stress on the importance of lineage and blood toward a new ideal of domesticity assumed to be the natural form of the family.
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Année:
2005
Editeur::
Cambridge University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
248
ISBN 10:
0521021154
ISBN 13:
9780521021159
Fichier:
PDF, 12.96 MB
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english, 2005