| Description |
ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index. |
| Contents |
The brother and sister culture -- Brother-sister collaborative relationships -- Romantic partnerships: the Lambs and the Wordsworths -- Victorian partnerships: the Brontës and the Rossettis -- The Sitwell phenomenon -- 'One of the highest forms of friendship': brother-sister relationships in women's autobiography -- Margaret Oliphant and the Elizabeth Sewell -- Harriet and James Martineau -- Conclusion -- The brother as lover -- Jane Austen and Mary Shelley -- The Brontë novels -- Family sagas of the 1860s -- Dickens and George Eliot -- Conclusion -- The family revenge novel -- Early nineteenth-century Gothic representations -- Dickens and L.P. Hartley: sisters in wheelchairs -- Bertha Rochester: the mad sister in the attic -- Bad brothers: an introduction -- Trollope and Oliphant -- Protective rivalry: Mary Cholmondeley and William Hamilton -- Changing places: siblings and cross-gendering -- The Brontës -- Walter Pater -- Sarah Grand's Heavenly twins -- Eliza Lynn Linton's Christopher Kirkland -- 'Most unwillingly alive': brothers and sisters in the First World War -- Virginia Woolf -- Vera Brittain and Rebecca West -- Katherine Mansfield -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Siblings in literature.
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Siblings in literature. |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Domestic fiction, English. |
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Siblings -- Great Britain -- History.
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Siblings. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| ISBN |
0333749308 |
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