| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Literature in history
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Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the trouble with families -- The trials of Caroline Norton: poetry, publicity, and the prime minister -- The young queen and the parliamentary bedchamber: "I never saw a man so frightened" -- Sarah Stickney ellis: the ardent woman and the abject wife -- Tom's pinch: the sexual serpent beside the Dickensian fireside -- Love after death: the deceased wife's sister bill -- The transvestite, the bloomer, and the nightingale -- On the parapets of privacy: walls of wealth and dispossession -- Robert Kerr: The Gentleman's House and the one-room solution -- The empire of divorce: single women, the bill of 1857, and revolt in India -- Bigamy and modernity: the case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Epilogue: between manual and spectacle. |
| Summary |
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. --From publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Home in literature.
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Home in literature. |
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and history. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Public opinion. |
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Privacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Privacy. |
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Families -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Families. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Families in literature.
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Families in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1901 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Levenson, Michael H. (Michael Harry), 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chase, Karen, 1952- Spectacle of intimacy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000 9780691006680 (DLC) 99058479 (OCoLC)42892214 |
| ISBN |
9781400831128 (electronic book) |
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1400831121 (electronic book) |
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9780691006680 |
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0691006687 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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