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1 online resource (xi, 216 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 14
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 14.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalized culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism -- Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette -- Dickens I: Great expectations and vocational domesticity -- Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home: institutionalization and form -- Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt -- A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Domestic fiction, English. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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19th century |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Domestic relations in literature.
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Domestic relations in literature. |
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Occupations in literature.
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Occupations in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Home in literature.
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Home in literature. |
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Work in literature.
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Work in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Monica F. Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521591414 (DLC) 97011305 (OCoLC)36549083 |
| ISBN |
0511008082 (electronic book) |
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9780511008085 (electronic book) |
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0521591414 (hardback) |
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