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Fathers in Victorian fiction /
This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle :
Cambridge Scholars,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Undermining the Victorian father / Natalie McKnight
- Father of the Brontës : romantic or Victorian? / Christine Alexander
- Dickens's Hard times : the father as tragic clown / Michael Hollington
- Dickens's philosophy of fathering / Natalie McKnight
- Victorian fatherhood and clerical conscience : crises of paternal authority in Gaskell and Trollope / Elizabeth Bridgham
- Bless me, father : religion and the good girl in Elizabeth Sewell's Margaret Percival and Mary Augusta Ward's Helbeck of Bannisdale / Meoghan Cronin
- Buried secrets : lost fathers in Bleak house / Monica M. Young-Zook
- "The rights 'o things by my own fireside" : masculinity and fatherhood in George Eliot's fiction / Natalie B. Cole
- "You are 'father,' you know" : Hardy's palimpsests / Melissa Jenkins
- Victorian fathers on film : Dickens's fathers as the precursor of the modern sensitive dad / Regina Hansen
- Conclusion : Just wait until your father comes home / Natalie McKnight.